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Definitions

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  • verb Common misspelling of want.
  • verb Common misspelling of won’t.

Etymologies

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Misspelt by confusion with words formed with the enclitic n’t.

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Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonderwander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won’t: wōnt.

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