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oncet (also onst) adverb Pronunciation of once (). [DARE labels this pronunciation “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1891 Brown Dialect in Tenn 172 In oncet, twicet, acrost, dost, and clost, we have a final t added. 1942 Hall Phonetics Smoky Mts 92 Many speakers pronounce the following words with excrescent final t: cliff, trough, close, dose, fence, once, twice. 1957 GSMNP-23:2:1 He [=Francis Asbury] rode a horseback all the time, and he figured it up one time to see how many times, how much he'd rode. So he figured up I think around the world onst and a half. 1961 Kurath and McDavid Pron Engl Atl Sts 179 An added /t/ occurs in once and twice throughout the Midland and the South ... Though most common in folk speech, it is widely used by middle-class speakers, especially in the South Midland. 1973 GSMNP-57:57 I try now to read the Bible through oncet a year. 1998 Dante OHP-51 Oncet the play-offs was between St. Paul and Dante. Neither would agree to play on the other’s field for the play-offs.