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Show PET PEEVE 3?. Scott IT AIN'T been so long ago that the word "ain't" was having quite a bit of trouble holding up a ! bloody but unbowed head when- ; ever it managed to slip in (or-out) ' at one of our centers of knowledge and culture. But "ain't" just ain't had it so good as It has since one j Xabled wit made the much publicized pub-licized remark that: "A lot of I folks, who ain't saying "ain't." ! ain't eating." Personally. I've never been too concerned about this particular word, because It ain't ever both- i ered me as much &s another I've heard bantered about In almost every section of the country Tve visited which Is the most of them. It's almost what you could call a word of opposite usage By this I mean:- when a person starts off by saying he "ain't this" or he "ain't that," you know he ain't about to start bragging He's going go-ing to say something negative. But. when he uses this other word . . . Well, he's about to say something some-thing he ain't going to" be able, to prove If he actually has to The word, case you ain't guessed, is "use-ta." I really think something some-thing drastic should be done about It. Take the gal next door. She says she "use-ta" date a college Ail-American, now a famed Pro but she married a musician A salesman I know says he "use-ta" sell more accounts than any other salesman In the county, but I know him well enough to know he has as tough a time as I do meeting meet-ing monthly bills I know another fellow who "use-ta" know just about any famous person you care to mention, and "use-ta" call them all by their' first name Like I say. It's terrible I used to think something might be done about tt, but I am not so sure any more." There ain't much hope I |