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- From: sav@nanette.sni.de (Dr.Savory)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: why wOn't for wIll not?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 07:12:59 GMT
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn, Germany
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- In <761.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) writes:
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- >TO: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
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- >DT> If you read Lewis Carroll, you will see "won't" and "can't" written
- > > with an extra apostrophe: wo'n't and ca'n't.
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- >So here's another question: Where does the "O" in "will not = won't"
- >come from?
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- Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
- Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
- Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
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- [What I tell you three times, is true! ;-]
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- Stu Savory
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