Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

I think this is the relevant entry in DARE (v. 1, p. 179):

http://books.google.com/books?id=MdENdlKWZ8AC&pg=PA179&dq=wa%27n%27t+wasn%27t+won%27t+dialect#PPA179,M1

("be", C.2.b): [want], [wOnt], [wont], pronunciation-spellings "wan't",
"won't": "NEng, NY, nPA, also Sth, esp eVA, eNC."

-- Doug Wilson

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