Timeline for Is "would I could" idiomatic?
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 14:48 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=88427 by developer User.Id=155216 | |
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 11:57 | comment | added | Khan | According to Cambridge Dictionary: "would that ...formal used to express a strong will or desire. Would rhat she could see her famous son now". | |
| Feb 17, 2019 at 3:46 | comment | added | user88427 | "Would that I could" means "I wish I could have been"? Weird. | |
| Feb 17, 2019 at 3:38 | history | answered | Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |