Re: USAGE: Aren't/Amn't
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 4:43 |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>*nods* I even use ain't in front of my class. Of course, I don't accept
>it in papers. . . but there are plenty of perfectly real words I don't
>accept in papers. Like the phrase "today's society."
Of course not: but ain't is a contraction, which I was taught never to
use in a paper, direct quotation excepted. Do you accept other
contactions (weren't, haven't, etc.) or do you only have something
against ain't in writing?
Padraic.