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To: 2NY

What is with the current love affair with ain't? Sorry, off topic, maybe it's the school teacher in me, but it seems to be the trendy hip word du jour.
susie


18 posted on 06/08/2006 8:40:09 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: brytlea

You ain't whistlin' Dixie!


21 posted on 06/08/2006 8:41:32 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: brytlea

"What is with the current love affair with ain't? Sorry, off topic, maybe it's the school teacher in me, but it seems to be the trendy hip word du jour."

From a native Texan, that's his way of trying to sound Texan. If he were a real Texan, instead of the liberal New England yankee that he is, he would know we don't say ain't. Ya'll, yes. But no ain't.


106 posted on 06/08/2006 10:59:51 AM PDT by RR76
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