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English
Verb
shoulde
- Obsolete spelling of should.
- 1559 Book of Common Prayer
- And that ye shoulde aunswere to every sentence. Amen.
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English scholde, from Old English sċeolde.
Pronunciation
Verb
shoulde
- should
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67