I believe that I might have read weren’t’s southern equivalent, “warn’t”, used before. “Jim warn’t on his island, so I tramped off in a hurry for the crick, and crowded through the willows, red-hot to jump aboard and get out of that awful country. Basically the ghost of Huckleberry Finn is going to get something from Jim warn’t to him.” What

were the reasons for the initial decision to make it “Convinced” in a paper?