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Re: just a little question
Posted By: Issachar, on host 199.172.141.229
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999, at 11:00:39
In Reply To: just a little question posted by famous on Tuesday, August 17, 1999, at 09:17:55:

> What does mayhap mean?
>
> I think I heard someone on here say it before (Darien, maybe) and I have never heard it before, but I just saw it on another web site and I wanted to know.
>
> famous

It means "perhaps" or "perchance". It's a contracted form of "may hap", as in "yea verily, it may hap[pen] to rain this eventide." Use it when you're in E-Shakespeare mode.

Iss "E-Rakim & Eric B." achar

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