TY - BOOK ID - 80836335 TI - Ain'thology AU - Katz, Seth AU - Donaher, Patricia PY - 2015 SN - 9781443878722 1443878723 9781443874502 1443874507 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Taboo, Linguistic. KW - English language KW - Linguistic taboo KW - Ineffable, The KW - Taboo KW - Semantics. KW - Semasiology KW - English language Semantics KW - Semantics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80836335 AB - 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... ER -