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- From: maj@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: why wOn't for wIll not?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.090242.12335@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:02:42 +1300
- References: <761.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> <1efeprINN9h1@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1efeprINN9h1@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de>, sav@nanette.sni.de (Dr.Savory) writes:
- > In <761.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) writes:
- >
- >>TO: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>So here's another question: Where does the "O" in "will not = won't"
- >>come from?
- >
- > Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
- > Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
- > Would not, could not (see Walrus & Carpenter ;)
- >
- > [What I tell you three times, is true! ;-]
- >
- > Stu Savory
-
- I'll go along with that!
- --
- Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ] University of Waikato
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hamilton, New Zealand
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