ont/ahnt

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Can you give me some examples where it doesn't? Â And please don't say
> you won't.
>

Right clever, Joel! ;-) OTOH, AmE are wont not to pronounce to
pronounce "wont" so that it falls together with "won't," problematic
for those BE/SE speakers for whom there is no phonetic distinction
among _want wont won't_. BTW, what was the pronunciation of
now-obsolete _on't_ for "on it"?
--
-Wilson
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