wiv

alternative wid · alternative wif

1. informalnonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of with.

   Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.

   1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13

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   It's about time somebody sent me a tip for Thundercats. Such a classy little game, so fast, such marvy graphics, so pretty, so why no tips? Who knows, p'raps folks spend so much time noodling about wiv the game, they haven't got any time left to lift a pen and send me a letter.

   1988, Your Sinclair, number 27, page 45

   Yeah, the little weasel’s right. I am goin’ to run away wiv Burt in ’is van.” The woman strutted over to the rat catcher, and took his hand. “We share a deep love of each other.”

   2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Wuhan Institute of Virology: a research institute on virology in Wuhan administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956.

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   “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”

   2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN