w'at's

"If we all's got to buy our wittles, an 'close, an' ain't gwine git no money till we grows de corn, w'at's we all gwine live on till den?"

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

At this, Flor suddenly spun about on the tip of one toe for the space of three minutes, with a buzzing noise like that of a top in hot motion, pausing at last to inquire, "Well, Maum Zoë, an 'w'at's dat?" and be off again in another whirl.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

'You won't hab no mouf ner years, but I kin turn yer back oncet in a w'ile, so yer kin git sump'n ter eat, en hear w'at's gwine on.'

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Yas, sah, I done pay ten bits fo 'to hear my chillun' scuss w'at's done been settled in disher fam'ly 'fore dey's bo'n and sence!

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Madame Charette, w'at's kip de place, get very much excite

Humour of the North 1909

He says that 'riginated in ther mind of some of them newspaper fellers w'at's writin' up stories 'bout Frank

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

Why, elder, "he said to the preacher, who had started from his seat with surprise," w'at's yo 'hurry?

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895

But I knows ev'ybody w'at's be'n conscripted fer ten miles 'roun', an 'dis yere boy don' b'long in dis neighborhood.

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895

Dis yer Janet, w'at's Mis '' Livy's half-sister, is ez much like her ez ef dey wuz twins.

The Marrow of Tradition 1895

He 's mos 'lackly one er dem bright mulatters, f'om Robeson County -- some of 'em call deyse'ves Croatan Injins -- w'at's been conscripted an' sent ter wu'k on de fo'tifications down at

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895