@nextworldover: There’s probably some relation between should and shall and could and can, isn’t there?
me: Yeah, and would and will.
me: I bet there’s some word in Old English that basically meant ‘counterfactual’ and was spelled or pronounced like “ould”.
@zhalaad: *makes a terrible pun and everyone’s confused what he means. It involved Old English.*
me: Wait, no, it’s not from Old English.
me: It’s from a form of English that might have happened, but probably didn’t.
me: Ould English.
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