Citations:maun

must

 * 1840, Mary Botham Howitt, Hope On, Hope Ever, Or, The Boyhood of Felix Law, page 53:
 * "O Maister!" exclaimed Alice, with tears in her eyes, “ye maun think nought at it. I sal niver forgive mysel!"
 * 1848, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton, page 45:
 * So father sent George first (you know George, well enough, Mary), and then work was scarce out toward Burton, where we lived, and father said I maun try and get a place . And George wrote as how wages were far higher in Manchester
 * 1860, James Kay-Shuttleworth, Scarsdale: Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, Thirty Years Ago, page 103:
 * "Pure Giles, he maun goo his aen gate, pure mon, sure he connot chuse bur be welly besoide hissel."
 * 1860, J. P. Robson, The Song of Solomon in the Northumberland Dialect, page 14:
 * thoo, O Solomon, maun hev a thoosan'; an' them 'it farms the froot on't twe hundort.


 * Scots or Cumberlandish?


 * 1795, A Select Collection of original Scotish Airs for the Voice, edited by George Thomson, set 1, page 15:
 * And oh ! what a heart was that to lose; But I maun no repine.
 * 1873, Henry Lonsdale, The Worthies of Cumberland [...], page 94:
 * And oh ! what a heart was that to lose; But I maun no repine.

may, might

 * 1890, Clare, Love of Lass, I, 30:
 * Ay, lads, ye maun weel luik skeered.

must

 * 1721, Ramsay, Poems, 19:
 * Maun we be forced thy skill to tine?
 * 1787, Taylor, Poems 13:
 * A'... Maun late or soon submit to fate.
 * 1844, Cross, Disruption, ii:
 * A minister ye maun be.
 * 1886, Haliburton, Horace, 2:
 * A' the warld an' his wife / Maun lie at ae great level.
 * 1891, Barrie, Minister, xxx:
 * I maun bide ahint.
 * 1892, Ballymena Obsserver:
 * If I maun dae't A can dae't.
 * 1844-1896, Wesley Guard Lyttle, Paddy McQuillan, 13:
 * Ye maun wait till ye're a Mason.