Trueno wrote:
"Ain't" ain't a proper word... innit?
It's considered merely slang nowadays, in most cases.
There was a time in America when a white person using the word "ain't" would be openly (and
wrongly) reprimanded for using a "Negro" word. In my grade school, children were force to stand in a corner for saying "ain't" ("am not"), or "ben't" ("be not"). Older kids were punished by being forced to write "Aren't, Can't, Isn't, Wasn't, Weren't, Won't" 100 times on the blackboard. Either way, the teachers and the other students would ridicule the white kid for acting like a black person.
This was in 1960s Michigan, not the Deep South, by the way.
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