Will not

[Dr T]

Ok, so my question is this, "Why isn't the word 'willn't' a contraction for will not?" My daughter says it all the time. Like if I say move your drink farther forward on the table so u will not spill it" she says, "I willn't daddy." I LOVE that!

[SmilingRedhead]

Hey Dr. T!

Long time no see :)

Hope this helps...

"won’t doesn’t come from will not but rather from woll not, an alternate form that existed into the mid-1800s. Will muscled out woll, but won’t muscled out willn’t. Just another weird bit fact about English."

Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? Motivated Grammar

[Dr T]

Good to c u Smiling :) I've never heard the word "woll" and never thought about the word wont really. Thank u for that. So I'll teach my daughter to say "WOLL NOT" hahahhaha

[mightynancy]

My son used to say amn't. As in, "You are SO CUTE!" "No I amn't!"

[RainofGold]

Whenever my husband used to play games with my daughter she used to say "another gain please" instead of "do it again please"

[Dr T]

I love those "amn't" and "another gain please" thanks for those!

[siouxz72]

wow...the op sounds soooo familiar! haha! my kids never said anything funny like that. other than ivy saying she wanted to watch "pinochino" and bryan saying he wanted a piece of "gubblebum"...my kids just aren't that funny :)

[applepansy]

I miss having little kids around!!

thank you for the giggles and smiles.

applepansy

[pam]

Yep Siouxz..other than the basghetti instead of spaghetti..that was about it.

[Palerider]

My oldest daughter when you asked her...what you are doing Rachel....she would respond with..."Doin".....or how are you doing...."doin"....:)

[ruthiechan]

My daughter says, "I'm boring" when she really means "I'm bored." I'm working to break her of that using humor since she's five and a half and in school, but it's really funny. "Mommy, I'm boring." BIG DOEFUL EYES.

[bodhigirlsmiles]

Ok, so my question is this, "Why isn't the word 'willn't' a contraction for will not?" My daughter says it all the time. Like if I say move your drink farther forward on the table so u will not spill it" she says, "I willn't daddy." I LOVE that!

this used to be a term in english. it has fallen out of popularity. the same is true of mayn't (may not). i am somewhat of a novice jane austen scholar, and her works are repleat with examples such as the one you mentioned.

[checkerboy]

Ok I have to add shan't for shall not. I had a junior high history teacher that would say that one all the time. It made him sound pretentious. Maybe I should pick it up cause I am always looking for better ways to sound pretentious.

[Dr T]

Thank u for that bodhigirl :)

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"shan't" and "I'm boring" those are great!

[havejoy]

My grand daughter scraped her knee this week and asked me to put a banjo on it.

[Iggy]

I'm glad that it'snot is not a word. It is not. Isn't is bad enough of a contraction.

My cousin said it'snot or more often is'snot. My Dad would then ask her, What is snot? She also got her "sh's" and "f's" mixed up. Instead of saying, shuffle the deck, she said Fusshel the Deck. The other are not for the public board. But it sure was funny coming from a 4 year old.

[Gwen]

my kids all came up with willn't on their own as well... i too love it, it's a great word. maybe if we all start saying it we can bring it into popularity?

[siouxz72]

me and my brother used to say mazagine and fridgidaytor and ambullANCE...we still do. cuz that's how we roll.

[Dr T]

hahaha I can see that for some reason Siouxz.

[pam]

My grand daughter scraped her knee this week and asked me to put a banjo on it.

Did you start singing "I came from Alabama wid a banjo on my knee?"

[havejoy]

I actually did!