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Why “Willn’t” Isn’t Used While it Makes More Sense
Contractions
First of all, we come to the term “contractions”. Contractions are simple, shortened words that are mostly used in informal speech and writings. The most common contractions are: haven’t — have not, she’d -she had, they aren’t — they are not, could’ve — could have, she’ll — she will and so on. To form a contraction, you just have to join two words, drop out some letters, and put an apostrophe to indicate the place where the letters have been dropped out but the case is not same when it comes to the contraction of “will not.”
Why Willn’t Is Not A Word
The contracted form of will not is “won’t”. Now the question arises why aren’t we using “willn’t” as a contracted form of “will not?” Or why “willn’t” is not a word? The answer is quite simple that we are just following the changes that our linguistic ancestor had made. But still, there is a reason for “willn’t” not being a word.
The word “won’t” is a contracted form based on the older way of “will not”. Back in the time it was still not decided how to write or pronounce the modal verb which is known as “will” nowadays. Earlier it was written as “wil” in present form and “wold” in the past form. But still, over the next few centuries at different times and places, the word “will” came out as wulle, wool, woll, welle…
