Wanta vs Manta - What's the difference?
wanta | manta |
As a contraction wanta
is eye dialect of want to|lang=en.As a noun manta is
manta ray.wanta
English
Alternative forms
* wannaContraction
(en-cont)- 1937 , , Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), page 163:
- “We don’t wanta . Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”
