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Ain't

Ain't (pronounced as /eɪnt/) is a negative inflection for am, is, are, has, and have in informal English. In some dialects, it is also used for do, does, did, and will. The development of ain't for the various forms of be, have, will and do occurred independently, at different times. The use of ain't for the forms of be was established by the mid-18th…

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Ain't

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples167
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
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related to Notable usage · 69
Ain't → Ain't Got You, Ain't Misbehavin, Ain't No Grave, Ain't Nobody Got Time, Ain't Nobody's Business If, Ain't That, Al Jolson, Alicia Keys, American, Andy Razaf, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bess, Billboard Hot, Black Sox, Bob Russell, Bobby Scott, Boys Town, Canadian, Chicago Daily News, Claude Ely
related to Regional usage and dialects · 25
Ain't → Appalachia, Australian English, Canada, Cockney, Cockney English, Eliza Doolittle, English, English-speaking, George Bernard Shaw's, In, In American English, In England, It, Mid-Atlantic, Māori-influenced English, New England, New Zealand, North America, Pygmalion, South
related to Inflections of the verb have · 17
Ain't → Chapter, Charles Dickens, English Restoration, Gentlemen, Han't, He's, Horner, Ladies, Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr, Much, Niles' Weekly Register, The Country Wife, Why, William Wycherley, With H-dropping, You
related to Rhetorical and popular usage · 14
Ain't → Although, American Usage, Baseball Hall, Dizzy Dean, Fame, If, In, It, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Richard Schickel, Star, Style, The Oxford Dictionary, This
related to Proscription and stigma · 13
Ain't → Anthony Trollope, England, English, For, For Victorian English, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Historically, It, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Throughout, William Makepeace Thackeray
related to Inflections of the verb do · 8
Ain't → African-American Vernacular English, African-Americans, Besides, Caribbean English, English, European-Americans, It, Its
related to Linguistic characteristics · 8
Ain't → English, Historically, I'm, In, Linguists, She, Standard, The
related to Etymology · 2
Ain't → English, The
is a · 1
Ain't → non-standard feature commonly found in mainstream Australian English and in New Zealand

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english used an't usage dialects use speakers also many found song century early forms aren't written han't got word non-standard

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Ain'tis anon-standard feature commonly found in mainstream Australian English and in New Zealand0.90text
y'allinstance ofain't is to be contrasted with other folk usages0.80text
strongly associated with the Southern United States.In Englandinstance ofain't is to be contrasted with other folk usages0.80text
ain't is generally considered non-standardinstance ofain't is to be contrasted with other folk usages0.80text
as it is used by speakers of a lower socio-economic class or by educated people in an informal mannerinstance ofain't is to be contrasted with other folk usages0.80text
Cockney Englishinstance ofain't was often used by writers to denote regional dialects0.80text
traditional country musicinstance ofIn genres0.80text
bluesinstance ofIn genres0.80text
rock n' rollinstance ofIn genres0.80text
hip-hopinstance ofIn genres0.80text
lyrics often include nonstandard features such as ain'tinstance ofIn genres0.80text
Ain'trelated to EtymologyEnglish0.60section

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