Wanta vs Wants - What's the difference?
wanta | wants |
As a contraction wanta
is eye dialect of want to|lang=en.As a noun wants is
plural of lang=en.As a verb wants is
third-person singular of want.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.”