Waun

"You ca'ant curse waun that do love everybody, and whose heart es full ov love." ❋ Joseph Hocking (1898)

I've got a brother as do live there, the waun younger'n me. ❋ Joseph Hocking (1898)

_ Yes, he art to ha 'pricked moor to waun side of' un. ❋ Various (1876)

"May it be lang afore ye're in a waun an 'a warmer place, my lord an' my lady," said the old woman, with the greatest politeness of manner she knew how to assume. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

When the girls of the neighboring lodges assembled to play at the favorite female game of pappus-e-ko-waun, or the block and string, before the lodge-door, Leelinau would sit vacantly by, or enter so feebly into the spirit of the play as to show that it was irksome to her. ❋ Cornelius Mathews (1853)

Dis hyar boy, han'sum an 'smart, bergin to git tired uv de fawm -- he heer'd de boys frum de city tellin' erbout de great doin's down dar, en de mo 'he look eroun' de mo 'de ole place los' hit's chawm, en fine'ly he goes to hi 'daddy en says, says he,' Pap, I dun git to de age when I waun 'see sum uv de wurl, en' ef yo 'gwine do ennything fo' me, do hit now. ' ❋ James Tandy Ellis (1905)

"I do'ant bleeve in makin 'fish o' waun and flesh of t'other. ❋ Joseph Hocking (1898)