Michelle, This Ain't Right!(Both Harvard-educated Obamas use the word "ain't")

You Tube ^ | 2/26/12 | RobtKraft/Granny Jan

[vrwc54]

White House transcript of Beverly Hills event

Worth reading for a laugh.

[UCANSEE2]

I've figured out the identity of the (collective) guardian of English language: it's the BBC.

Well, ain't that a hoot?

[UCANSEE2]

I wouldn’t use it in a formal setting, but it’s quite silly to try to stamp out a word that is so commonplace.

A colloquial dialect, either by habit or by consideration of audience.

Consider that 'fag' or 'faggot' used to mean a cigarette. Until people started using the FRENCH WORD cigarette.

What matters most about a 'word' is, as you say, it's commonality, not it's nationality or heritage.

[UCANSEE2]

Actually ‘aint’ has been a very real English word from, at the latest, the time of Shakespeare.

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house..."

Is Twas in the dictionary?

Ain't it all part of 'poetic license'? (I have no idea what poetic license really means)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks vrwc54.