'appen

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Far more deserving of recrimination is the illiterate dialogue inflicted on characters like Wiggins, the footman, forced to declare: “Cor blimey, I knew this was goin’ to ’appen.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017

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From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, but I did not know that theengs like theese were going to 'appen.

From Sinister Paradise by Williams, Robert Moore

Oh, don't, for goodness' sake, talk like that—I'm sure I don't want to see nothing 'appen.

From Voces Populi by Anstey, F.

“I dunno, young sir, what you’d call superstitious, but I’ve seen some queer things in my time, and something was sure to ’appen arterwards.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon