[Ads-l] Yet another one new to me

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed Mar 18 04:32:08 UTC 2015


> "I would of got _shot_ of them a long time ago."
> 
> I've seen seen shed, shet, shut, before. This is also the first time that
> I've seen any version of this outside of literature. I've never heard it in
> the wild, either.

British informal for 'get rid of'; in British dictionaries (Oxford, Collins, etc.)
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