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The contraction, won't, is actually a shortened version of would not. That is why it is spelled like it is.

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The contraction of "will not" is "won't" because in English, contractions are formed by combining certain letters from the original words. In this case, the "i" and "ll" in "will" are removed and replaced with an apostrophe to form "won't."

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