TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz,Seth
AU  - Donaher,Patricia
TI  - Ain'thology: the History and Life of a Taboo Word
SN  - 9781443878722
AV  - PE3724.O3 
U1  - 410422 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - English language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Negatives
KW  - Anglais (Langue)
KW  - Étymologie
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Dialect, slang & jargon
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Historical & Comparative
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index; Table of contents; acknowledgments; introduction; i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; ii; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; iii; chapter eight; chapter nine; chapter ten; iv; chapter eleven; chapter twelve; chapter thirteen; contributors; index
N2  - The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont
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