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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Had better, Would better. Like a good deal and some other idioms, this expression is denounced by some writers and defended by others. Grammatical construction supports more strongly the forms would better, would rather, etc. "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." "I would rather read than drive to-day." "I would rather not go." Omit rather and the superiority of would over had becomes apparent. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Crosswords: WOULD BETTER |
| Specialty definitions using "WOULD BETTER": Adjective or Adverb, Adverbs for Relative Pronouns ♦ Drat 'em! ♦ Had better ♦ Mongolian Hordes technique. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Would better have been put differently : Miss Smith asked the pleasure of Captain Jenkin's company to tea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Children | Malaysia | It also mandates the formation of a children's court, which, the Government stated, would better protect the interests of children. (references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-o-r-t-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: rebottled, rouletted. | |
-3 letters: buttered, dotterel, outbreed, rebottle, rebutted, redouble, roulette, troubled, troweled. | |
-4 letters: blotted, blotter, blurted, bottled, bottler, boulder, boweled, bowered, bowlder, burette, burweed, dottrel, doubler, doublet, doubter, elbowed, lowbred, lowered, obtrude, outbred, outdrew, redoubt, roweled, tetrode, toweled, towered, trebled, trouble, turtled, tutored, urodele, uttered. | |
-5 letters: belted, belter, betted, better, bettor, blowed, blower, bolder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 4F 55 4C 44 42 45 54 54 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01001111 01010101 01001100 01000100 00100000 01000010 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W O U L D   B E T T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 004F 0055 004C 0044 0042 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57495546382363954543952 |
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