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To: vrwc54

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


36 posted on 02/27/2012 3:32:07 PM PST by Brass Lamp
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To: Brass Lamp
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)

43 posted on 02/29/2012 9:33:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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