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Ain't is a non-standard feature commonly found in mainstream Australian English [46] and in New Zealand, ain't is a feature of Māori-influenced English. [47] In American English, usage of ain't corresponds to a middle level of education, [43] although its use is widely believed to show a lack of education or social standing. [48]
AAVE don't for standard English doesn't comes from this, unlike in some other dialects which use don't for standard English doesn't but does when not in the negative. Similarly, AAVE was is used for standard English was and were. [93] The genitive -'s ending may or may not be used. [94] Genitive case is inferrable from adjacency.
The article itself provides the justification for this, when it says "Amn't, in addition to being an antecedent of ain’t, is a standard contraction of am not in some dialects...". Amn't, in other words, has far more of an independent life than hain't, bain't, etc. Including it in the article title affords it due weight, not undue weight.
Because standard English does not have negative concord but many varieties and registers of English do, and because most English speakers can speak or comprehend across varieties and registers, double negatives as collocations are functionally auto-antonymic (contranymic) in English; for example, a collocation such as "ain't nothin" or "not ...
I ain’t even roll him in the ‘Wood ’cause he musty You ask how she doin’, I just tell her come and f— me Shot his ass twenty times, damn, this n—a lucky (damn, that n—a lucky)
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The dictionary's treatment of 'ain't' was subject to particular scorn, [2] since it seemed to overrule the near-unanimous denunciation of that word by English teachers. [ citation needed ] The entry for "ain't" seemed to condone its use, saying "though disapproved by many and more common in less educated speech, used orally in most parts of the ...
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