Citations:u

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English citations of u

1588 1862
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Pronoun[edit]

  • 1588, William Shakespeare, edited by Edmond Malone, Love's Labour’s Lost[1], London: H. Baldwin, page 395:
    Moth. Ba, moſt ſilly ſheep, with a horn:—You hear his learning.
    Hol. Quis, Quis, thou conſonant ?
    Moth. The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them ; or the fifth, if I.
    Hol. I will repeat them ; a e, i,—
    Moth. The ſheep : the other two concludes it ; o, u.
  • 1862, Thomas Hardy, edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate, The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy[2], 18th edition, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, retrieved 1978, page 2:
    I wish you wd tell me how u. r. when u. write.