Re: USAGE: Aren't/Amn't

jmpearson@facstaff.wisc.edu writes:
>Since these dialects were socially stigmatized, the use of "ain't"
>eventually came under fire, and has now dropped out of Standard English.
>An unforeseen side-effect of the linguistic pogrom is that now we no
>longer
>have a contraction for "am" + "not", and are forced to use "am not" or
>"aren't" instead.
What I always heard from teachers and even my mom was that "Ain't isn't a
word". Well, that seems to have changed because I use it alot (of course
not in a formal setting mind you!).

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