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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| druthers (n.) |
| If I’d had my druthers, I wouldn’t have gone. Druthers, probably a contraction of either would rather or had rather, very likely from a Southern pronunciation of the phrase, means “preferences, wishes”; it is Informal and Conversational. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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