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To: scouser who wrote (2746)6/1/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
You are not shocking anyone by using "ain't" (ooooo!), scouser. There are plenty of descriptivists (as against prescriptivists) who argue that it is a perfectly acceptable colloquial contraction. See, for example:

newdream.net

or:

linguistlist.org

or etc. :-)

jbe