'pon
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pon"
English
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Preposition
[edit]’pon
- Contraction of upon.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 12, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
- So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.