Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 18:59 |
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"Aren't" is the standard negative in our local dialect, for instance "I
aren't going anywhere". "Ain't" is never heard in modern BrEn as far as I
know, except in a few 'aristocratic' families, but even there is felt to be
obsolescent. In the Great Yarmouth area (where I come from) the standard
negative is "Int".
> > "ain't" had been the mark of upper class aristo English for a few
> > centuries;
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> > "..there are Ents and things that look like Ents but ain't, as you might
> > say."
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