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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: Gender-Specific Pronouns (and "ain't")
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 21:54:44 EST
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> We could try the construction my two-year-old developed (quite logically,
> if not *properly*)--amn't I.  :-)

Smart kid!  That's actually an obsolete form.  "Am't" is one, too.

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