Wos vs Woz - What's the difference?
wos | woz |
* 1876, Edward Everett Hale, "Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'", Scribner's Monthly , Vol. XII, No. 1, page 20[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA20&id=KOgGAQAAIAAJ]:
Intentional or eye-dialect misspelling of was.
* {{quote-book, 1893, ,
, passage="You woz' saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you '''woz''' beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you ' woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'. }}
* {{quote-book, 1894, , Discords
, passage='If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'}}
* {{quote-book, 2002, , Country of the Blind, page=343
, passage=We woz robbed, Brian. }}
As nouns the difference between wos and woz
is that wos is louse while woz is wagon (four-wheeled cart for hauling loads).As a verb woz is
.wos
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Verb
(head)- She wos' real good to 'em all, she ' wos , ma'am.
woz
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(head)Susy: A Story of the Plains
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