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Show "Aren't I" or "Ain't I" Oeorge P.ernard Shaw is quoted as being out to put an end to the "damnable "damn-able affectation" of present-day English Eng-lish writers who see an evidence of culture in 'using "aren't I" Instead 'of "am I not." "Aren't," says the writer quoted, is plural and "I" is singular. ( You would not say "Are I not right," would you? Then why use the plural , form in the contraction. The homely j form "ain't'' is much more nearly correct, cor-rect, being derived directly from "amn t," the contraction of "am not." |