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Ackshually, Ontario Hydro, per se, no longer exists. The Provincial Crown authority was split up a few years back.
2005 December 15, Nobody, “Denver light rail to open early”, in misc.transport.urban-transit2 more examples
To shaw 'e, neighbours, just the man he is, I may tell 'e that a larnèd piece like Martin Grimbal ackshually comed all the way to Newtake[…]
1898, Eden Phillpotts, “The Zeal of Sam Bonus”, in Children of the Mist, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1889, page 207Says solemnly, 'ack-shually – that'd be really fun, because, ackshually – there hasn't been anyone to take me for a while'
2013 April 28, Wendy James, The Steele Diaries, Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 185
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