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twa

 (twä, twô)
n.adj. & pron. Scots
Two.
[Middle English, variant of two; see two.]
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twa

(twɔː) or

twae

n, determiner
a Scot word for two
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twa

(twɑ, twɔ)

n., pl. twas,
adj. Scot.
two.
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Marry, I wad full fain heard some question 'tween you twae. (3.3.54-9) Some of the unique indicators of Jamy's dialect include his use of 'Got' for 'God', the contracted phrase 'lig I'th'grund' for 'lie in the ground', 'Ay' for 'I', 'sall' for 'shall', and 'twae' for 'two'.
and Tatham use 'twa' and 'twae' to indicate 'two' in the same manner as Captain Jamy, though the two later playwrights also use markers of dialect that do not appear in either Henry Vor in Jony's lines.
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