Mudcat Café message #3000202

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Thread #132392 Message #3000202
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Oct-10 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Emma Thompson attacks poor language
Subject: RE: BS: Emma Thompson attacks poor language

'Innit' replacing classic 'ain't it'.
Ain't appeared in the 18th C., was used by Dickens as a word in Cockney dialect, and appeared as dialect in an American novel in 1845 (Wigmam & Cabin Ser., Simms.