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first-person singular simple past indicative of be. examples
third-person singular simple past indicative of be. quotations examples
I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.
1915, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, section I
He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, page 16
(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural. quotations examples
And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Gen 40:17
(now colloquial or nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were. quotations
You was pleased to cast a favourable eye upon me.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]
"Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
(colloquial, nonstandard) first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were. quotations
“What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”
2001, Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom, page 104
(colloquial, nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were. quotations
When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now baby / Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah
1968, Etta James, Ellington Jordan, Billy Foster (lyrics and music), “I'd Rather Go Blind”, performed by Etta James
Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 24