Re[2]: [tied] Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

At 11:57:47 AM on Thursday, February 5, 2009, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- On Thu, 2/5/09, bmscotttg <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> From: bmscotttg <BMScott@...>

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
>>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>>> [...]

>>>> Suppose 'ain't I' for 'aren't I' spread in English,
>>>> some people might come up with *'amn't I'. [...]

>> No asterisk. <Amn't I> is found in some dialects,
>> including, if I remember correctly, Scottish English and
>> Hiberno-English. I've also heard it from young
>> children.

> amn't seems to have been very common in Early Modern
> English --at least judging by English literature of the
> 1600s and 1700s. But whenever I hear "Aren't I", it makes
> me cringe and answer, "Yes, you am."

Whereas I grew up with it and consider it the normal
conversational form.

Brian