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will not
Etymologies
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Examples
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What He wills, He wills, thaa knows; and if thaa willn't bend, thaa mun break. '
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Joan loves you, and willn't never, never go away from you any more.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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'But he willn't ged crushed in a coile seam i' heaven; naa, lass, will he? '
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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'Yo' happen willn't let me co yo 'friends because I've bin an enemy to so mony on yo'!
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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"Someha 'or other mi arm slipt raand her waist, an aw willn't tell yo' noa mooar; long befoor th 'sun hed set, an it went daan sooin enuff nah, it wor all sattled."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Aw've studden a gooid deeal sin aw wor wed to thee, an aw expect aw'st ha to stand a lot moor; but one thing aw willn't put up wi, an that is, sittin an listenin to thee, an havin to keep mi tongue still.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But tha'll heed what thi gronny says, -- willn't ta, pet?
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Conshuns," aw sed, "it's mooar like at it'll do violence to his britches pockets, aw willn't have onny ov his muky pigs livver."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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To be frozzen to deeath, thinks aw, willn't be nice;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Th 'lad turned away, an slipt behind a row o' stawls, an aw willn't say onny mooar abaat what happened after.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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