Scottish dialect past tense of 'have,' meaning 'had,' used in Scots language and Scottish English.
Scottish variant of 'had,' from Old English hæfde. Scottish maintained this pronunciation and spelling longer than standard English did.
Scottish 'haed' shows how English broke apart into regional dialects—Scots speakers kept pronunciations that southern England abandoned, making Scottish English a living museum of older English sounds.
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