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no wonder en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of small wonder.
But from Northallerton No. 46143 reached 65½ m.p.h. by Otterington, 73 by Thirsk, 79½ by Pilmoor, and 82½ by Alne and was still accelerating when it was decided on the footplate that the train was getting too much ahead of time—and no wonder, with 40 min. allowed for the level 30.0 miles from Northallerton to York!—so that the engine was drastically eased.
1958 December 14, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 852: