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Originally Posted by HarryT
Interestingly, the word "ain't" was an affectation widely adopted in "upper-class" British English in the early 20th century. You'll see this in the books of P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy L. Sayers, for example. Both Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey use "ain't" in their everyday speech.
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I didn't realize that.
In my country, it meant one lived in a trailer park and drove a pickup truck, and smoked Marlboro cigarettes. One's underwear had skid marks, and the picking of one's nose did not go unnoticed in polite circles.
Don
NOTE: Seriously, Harry, I wasn't aware of the cultural use of the word in British English society.