Re[4]: [tied] Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

At 4:40:12 PM on Thursday, February 5, 2009, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

[...]

>> Whereas I grew up with [aren't I] and consider it the
>> normal conversational form.

> My parents, from West Virginia, done learned me good and
> teached me to say "Am I not," which the last I checked was
> the standard form and the normal form in everyday
> conversation.

I was distinguishing conversational <aren't I> from formal
<am I not>, which in most contexts sounds a bit stilted even
to me.

Brian