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Thank you, Bingley; that's cute. As a bona fide member of the grammar police, I applaud it! It wasn't long after my children started school that they came home saying "ain't". It didn't take me a whole lot longer to train them out of that.
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grammar police…saying "ain't"…train them out of that
There's nothing ungrammatical about ain't.
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There ain't done never nothing been wrong wit 'ain't' :-)
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There's nothing ungrammatical about ain't.Let's not go there, again! The opening link also leads you to the New Yorker cartoons and other neat stuff... that will save me sneaking into my Hairdresser's to browse the magazine rack! http://www.unitedmedia.com/cartoonbank/archive/45853.gi.html
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Such a pity the first one Rose spots isn't in fact a grammatical error.
But, but...he says, "none have occurred today". Shouldn't that be none has occurred today?
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Both of these constructions have arguments for them.
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Yep. Both are correct. Who's gonna fire off the angry E-mail? hi Faldage
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