Monday, January 27, 2014

Wanna, Gonna

By: Kandice Thorn

Over the years that I have worked with international students and non-native English speakers, I have noticed over and over again people using the words like "wanna" and "gonna" in their email correspondence.  This phenomenon has confounded me for a while, so I decided recently to do some digging to see why so many international students use these words.