| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 15, 1999, 21:21 |
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Melissa Phong wrote:> Can anybody tell me how this developed in English? Why is it grammatically > correct to say "aren't I" instead of "amn't I"?Actually, "ain't" is perfectly acceptable English to all but the most neurotically anal proscriptive grammarians--the same ones who insist that a preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.