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[256bits]

It ain't. Get over it.

Where did ain't come from.
Used to mean "are not", but now you get the ruler for using it.
Well , maybe not now, but at one time, when teachers had the powre pohwa.

EDIT: changed power to a Boston accent.

 

[sysprog]

Where did ain't come from.
Used to mean "are not", but now you get the ruler for using it.
Well , maybe not now, but at one time, when teachers had the powre.

The Wikipedia Ain't article covers this well enough -- It contains a reference to 'rhoticity' -- 'whether' or 'whethə' the 'r' is pronounced or not, when it immediately follows, but does not immediately precede, another vowel -- fascinating fodder for amateur philologists.

 

[Mark44]

Used to mean "are not", but now you get the ruler for using it.

Originally "ain't" was a contraction of "am not" per the Wiki article that @sysprog referred to. More recently it has become a contraction for am not, is not, and are not.

As a side note, I was watching an Irish series called "Blood" and one character said "I amn't," something I'd never heard before.

 

[etotheipi]

Syntactic quirks from the language that brought you sentences like

'James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher'

 

[Vanadium 50]

Syntactic quirks from the language that brought you sentences like

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

 

[George Jones]

Heh. I like that. I'm going to start writing all my correspondence using British/Canadian spellings for lable, decible, reble and lible.

Once, while working in the U.S., I comment to a colleague that for some words, Canadians commonly use British spelling, while for other words, Canadians commonly use American spelling. Former, "colour"; latter, "tire". My colleague then asked "Do Canadians spell 'civilization' with an ess or a zee?" I replied "Canadians spell 'civilization' with a zed."

 

[Mark44]

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

There's a story told about a sign painter who was hired to paint a sign for the front of a bakery. The sign was to read "Pies and Cakes."
After working on the layout awhile, the painter asked the baker, "How much space should I leave between Pies and and and and and Cakes?"

 

[Vanadium 50]

I hope the baker gave the answer in pie-cas.

 

[aindien]

Very interesting. I had wondered about this too. Just figured it was something we borrowed but really had no idea other than that.