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Ain't continued to be used without restraint by many upper middle class speakers in southern England into the beginning of the 20th century. [29] [30] Ain't was a prominent target of early prescriptivist writers. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, some writers began to propound the need to establish a "pure" or "correct" form of English. [31]
A aggravate – Some have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". According to AHDI, the use of "aggravate" as "annoy" occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. In Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. Sixty-eight percent of AHD4's usage panel approves of its use in "It's the ...
isn’t it / ain’t it (also all-purpose question tag - British colloq.) Ion (informal) I do not / I don't I’ve: I have isn’t: is not it’d: it would it’ll: it shall / it will it’s: it has / it is Idunno (informal) I do not know kinda (informal) kind of lemme: let me let’s: let us loven’t (informal) love not (colloquial) ma’am ...
It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so; It goes without saying; It is a small world; It is all grist to the mill; It is an ill wind (that blows no one any good) It is best to be on the safe side
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 ...
However, some speakers of AAVE distinctively use ain't instead of don't, doesn't, or didn't (e.g., I ain't know that). [88] Ain't had its origins in common English but became increasingly stigmatized since the 19th century. See also amn't. Negative concord, also called "double negation", as in I didn't go nowhere; if the sentence is negative ...
I don't have the spoons to edit this page, but the main image should be easy to transform into tables, which can be separated into two sections between common and uncommon contractions. this is better for accessibility for who use screen readers to read the page or simply want to better read the image, as that's very grainy JPG. also note that ...
In fact, the meaning of "I ain't money" is "I am not money". They need to say "I ain't got money," or more likely "I ain't got no money." There is no mention in the article of the "got" requirement to mean "to have not." In fact, ain't can also be used to negate verbs other than "got", as in "I ain't going."