Re: CHAT: which's

Tim May wrote:
> Your dialect won't allow "I've not" either?
Nope.  To me, that sounds English.  I'm sure there are probably other
dialects outside of England that do that, and probably dialects in
England that don't, but "English" is the association I have when I hear
a form like "I've not".  Strange that "have" should forbid that when the
forms of "be" do permit it, "I'm not", "You're not", etc.  (Indeed, "I'm
not" is the only possible negation of "I'm", altho "You aren't" is, of
course, a common variant of "you're not" - I think "you're not" is more
common, but "you aren't" is far from rare - altho, again, forms like
*"you'ren't" or *"I'mn't" are completely impossible)

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