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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.

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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.

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