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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: The word "won't".
Message-ID: <565@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 05:47:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 05:47:25 1985
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Does anyone know how the contraction for "will not" came to be "won't"?
"Willn't" seems more logical.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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