cudn't
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cudn't
- Pronunciation spelling of couldn't.
- 1911, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, “Sexton Joe”, in By Fell and Dale at the English Lakes[1], pages 87–88:
- 'Theer's Miss So-and-so bin doon here and gaan on ivver so and glen me sic a blackin' as never was, becos I telt her I cudn't git her intil t' auld grund noa-ways, and I telt her she mud just lig in t' new grund and mud be weel content, an aw, for it was a deal sweeter.' 'And,' added old Joe, 'theer's nowt so queer as folk, specially wick uns.'
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- Brave Truman trekked'n'climbed for three solid days an' had varyin' adventurin's what I ain't time to tell you now, but he s'vived 'em all till he was up that feary'n' ghostsome summit in the clouds what you can see from anywhere on Big I an' so high up he cudn't see the world b'low.
- 2010, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
- [...] maybe Yanagi b'liefed us an' maybe he din't, but he bartered us fungusdo' for rockfish an' warned us Waimea Town weren't so friendsome as it'd been once, nay, Kona say-soed'n'knucklied ficklewise an' you cudn't guess their b'havin's.