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Subject:
Ain't - according to Fowler
From:
Donald Hocking <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:10:58 +1100
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My Dear Bill
 
I am so glad that neither your Webster nor my Fowler 'guessed' at the
antecedents of ain't.   But why should idioms be sacrosanct?   Slang isn't.
 
Donald Hocking
Procedural & Protocol Consultant
<http://www.ozemail.com.au/~donaldh/art0.htm>

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