wanna contraction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wanna (nominalised usage) + contraction.
Noun[edit]
wanna contraction (plural wanna contractions)
- (linguistics) A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.
Further reading[edit]
- Paul Warren (2012) Introducing Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press