Re[6]: [tied] Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

At 4:56:23 PM on Thursday, February 5, 2009, Rick
McCallister wrote:

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

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

> For my kinfolk, it was either "Am I not?" or "Ain't I?",

Exactly: their 'Ain't I?' is my family's 'Aren't I?'.

Brian