At 15:09 12/21/2005 -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: >begin quoting DJA as of Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:49:05PM -0800: >> Michael O'Keefe wrote: >[Unattributed bits deleted] >> >It's called a contraction isn't it ? >> >> No, it's called a misspelled word. The word you wanted was "Want". >> >> "Wan't" would be a contraction of "Wa" and "Not". I'm not aware of any >> contractions containing "Wa". > >Wah wah wah. > >So where does the "Wo" come from in "won't"?
The same place the i comes from in ain't. Gus "wawa is a convenience store on the east coast" Wirth -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
