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What is wrong with the word Ain t?
Ain’t is a contraction that can mean am not, are not, and is not. It can also mean have not, has not, do not, does not, or did not. Ain’t apparently begins as amn’t, a contraction for am not, which you can still hear in Ireland and Scotland today. Ain’t is recorded in the early 1700s, with amn’t found a century before.
What is the most incorrectly used word?
12 English Words That People Say and Use Wrong
- Literally. Wrong meaning: Figuratively, very.
- Factoid. Wrong meaning: A small fact.
- Irregardless. Wrong meaning: Regardless, without consideration of (or despite) the circumstances.
- Entitled.
- Poisonous.
- Runners-up, Passers-by.
- Ironic.
- Infamous.
Is Ain’t a word in the Webster dictionary?
“Ain’t” and 10,000 other new entries have made it into the newest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. It’s not the first dictionary to print the word, which has long appeared in unabridged dictionaries as well as Webster’s New World Dictionary. But most identify it as substandard or slang.
What words are not real words?
These aren’t real words
- irregardless.
- unhabitable. If something is capable of being lived in, it’s habitable.
- themself. This may eventually gain acceptance as a gender-neutral form of himself or herself, but for now, it’s not a real word.
- refudiate.
- runner-ups.
- stupider.
- bigly.
- snollygoster.
Is “Ain’t” a bad word?
Ain’t is possibly the most-maligned word in the English grammar guides. Even though many other contractions are now acceptable in all but the most formal writing, ain’t is still frowned upon in all but the most informal writing, and sometimes even there. But that hasn’t stopped it.
Is it bad to say “I Ain’t Got Nothing”?
“Ain’t” may sound really bad for some listeners when it comes to redundancy: I ain’t got nothing = I got nothing. I ain’t got no choice = I got no choice. We don’t say ‘I didn’t do nothing’ or ‘I did anything’. But with ‘ain’t’, oddly enough, we do.
Is ‘Ain’t I’ ever okay to use in a sentence?
‘Ain’t I’ should never be used. It’s awful and will make you sound like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins. It should always be ‘aren’t I’. Ain’t is ok if you’re being ironic/knowing/smug. As in ‘watch Katie and Peter on TV last night? High brow it ain’t.’
Can you use “ain’t” instead of “am not”?
Then again, your reasoning for disallowing the other uses of “ain’t” seem not to be concerned with the fact that “ain’t” is “am not”, which is inappropriate entirely for those instances, which I think is more important than the existence of alternative phrasings.