[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #2157 - 20 msgs

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Nov 20 16:16:08 CST 2002


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 dana at dtn.com wrote:

> "Ain't" is also in the dictionary.

I could've sworn that "ain't" is in the OED[0] as an oudated contraction
of "am not", with all the other uses it has gained being incorrect.


[0] You weren't referring to that pamphlet put out by Webster & Co. as
    "the dictionary", were you?
-- 
Jonathan Patschke
  "Albert Einstein nailed space-time, but the wild thing had him stumped.
   Al, baby, two and two make five-and-a-quarter; that's why people fall
   in love." -- Thomas Dolby, "That's Why People Fall in Love"



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