We Won't/Wunt/Wun't Be Druv?

[WildWood]

So another thread asking the good folk of NSC for help!

I've got a custom Paul Weller Lambretta (Wildwood, hence the username!) & am in the middle of designing a bespoke vinyl graphic to pay homage to the Albion somewhere discreetly on the bike (I'm not getting it airbrushed on as I may want to sell it in the future & can assume not everyone would appreciate the Albion crest!)

Anyway, the basic design is the Albion logo with "we won't be druv" in olde English writing underneath. But which, in NSC's opinion is the correct spelling: Won't, Wunt or Wun't?! Iv had a look online & all seemed to be used at one stage or another!

I understand this isn't quite as crucial as "can anyone re-home my carp" or "can someone find me a girlfriend" but it's important none the less.

PS - if the sticker sounds of interest to anyone else & I can get them for a decent price in bulk, I'm happy to sell them once done at cost, just let me know.

Ta!

 

[Ur_havin_a_Laugh]

Won't.

No question about it

 

[Poppett63]

They are all right! Worth reading the Sussex poem by Cook

We wunt be druv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another idea for a banner?

It could be said that we weren't druv in the search for a stadium

 

[Poppett63]

And yes, I would like a sticker or more!

 

[Frutos]

Won't.

No question about it

In this context I disagree.

I always thought it was "wunt" in the context of this phrase.

 

[beorhthelm]

wunt would be in the sussex country drawl. a brightonian would say wont and seems perfectly acceptable.

no mucking about with ' either way.

 

[skipper734]

Older English would appear to be wunt. Wun't is just wrong. What an earth is a Paul Weller Lambretta, sounds awfully Gay!
This is a proper Scooter.

 

[Notters]

Certainly isn't won't, I'd go for wunt.

 

[Norman Potting]

I think it should be "Will Not be Driven" - this isn't Croydon after all.

 

[Dandyman]

Wunt be druv is proper Sussex.

 

[WildWood]

Older English would appear to be wunt. Wun't is just wrong. What an earth is a Paul Weller Lambretta, sounds awfully Gay!
This is a proper Scooter.

Vespa GS? My favourite scooter! Got 2x Vespa's as well (PX street racer & Primavera) the Weller Lambretta is a 1967 LI Special - I don't think it's gay but iv never asked it to be fair....

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I voted wunt but then looked it up, and every reference to the poem by Victor Cook is won't. So I went to the bookcase to find a book entitled Sussex as She Wus Spoke by Tony Wales. That also quotes the poem with 'won't.
That really surprises me.

 

[ngood77]

 

[WildWood]

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Thanks all for your responses!

Although 67% of NSC says "Wunt" is the answer but the poem that ngood777 kindly attached says Won't!!! Think I'll go with Won't and hope no one pulls me up on it!

Il let you know when it's done & sell to anyone who wants one.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Where's the option for 'I reject all this negativity towards the concept of a designated driver'