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English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Contraction
wan't
- (Yorkshire, otherwise archaic) Wasn't.
1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio:This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper,
And, though our Dick was a good looked lad,
She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper,
And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]
Etymology 2
Misspelt by confusion with words formed with the enclitic n't.
Pronunciation
Verb
wan't
- Misspelling of want.
- 2007: “dldege”, Drupal: Can a .theme get the $node it's on?, “Not sure where you are”, the 30th day of January at 7:41pm
- Not sure where you are wan'ting access to the node.
- 2009: “Gregg B”, rec.games.pinball (Google group): Tech, Pinball pool, the 7th day of May at 3:13pm
- Not sure if this applies to the factory CPU, but if you're using a Pascal board, I'm pretty sure it wan'ts to see the coils fire as part of the POST.
- 2009: “Edvard Pitka”, nhusers (Google group): How to map Property I don't want setter for., the 8th day of May at 2:45pm
- You either have persistable attribute in your entity or you don't. If you don't wan't to expose it to the outside world you make it private.
Etymology 3
Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonder–wander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won't: wōnt.
Pronunciation
Verb
wan't
- Misspelling of won't.
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