Evangeline has well and truly learned the art of contracting.

[conuly]

She, like her sister before her, has spontaneously formed the word "amn't". It's a useful word. Pity it doesn't exist in our dialect. Like, not even remotely. I wish it did.

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So commandeer a word from another dialect.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

God knows the English language does it all the time.

(“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. "--James D. Nicoll )

"Ain't" fills in the useful slot "amn't" would otherwise supply....but you knew that.

Re: So commandeer a word from another dialect.

[conuly]

I always love that quote :)

I'd commandeer that word, but really, it has such a stigma to say ain't and people won't understand amn't except as an unacceptable neologism. Honestly, sometimes the masses have no imagination.