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Originally Posted by Tubby
I remember when I was at school, I used the word 'ain't ' The English teacher was constantly telling me
"Ain't, ain't in the English language ain't ain't."
I read somewhere that year (probably 1959) That the Oxford Dictionary had included the word 'ain't '- because of common usage.
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American teachers could, and did, then still correctly say that it wasn't in the dictionary, owing to our reliance on Websters.