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Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English. Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.

Andrew Elfenbein

Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English. Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.

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