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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: "A is B" - which is subject ?
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In article <3r8p24$qs0@styx.uwa.edu.au>, Brian Willis
<bwillis@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> In article <misraelD9rEr9.zB@netcom.com> Mark Israel, misrael@scripps.edu
> writes:
> >   I use "amn't", and so does my mother.  She learned English in
> >Ireland.
> >
> I always write "a'n't" and pronounce it the same as "aren't".  It is no
> doubt this identity of pronunciation which makes so many people spell
> them both the same.
> 
> Brian Willis

Aren't I? is used in the US where it is pronounced /Arnt aI?/  (That is
the r is distinctly pronounced) I would guess the origin is older, anyone
have any information?.  Is amn't pronounced /Ant/ in Scotland?

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R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
