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...gotcha," for those who don't know, ain't fitten to talk about...
Says Editor Gove: "The English language is not a system of logic. What we start with is an inchoate heterogeneous agglomerate that retains the indestructible bones of innumerable tries at orderly communication." In short, writing dictionaries ain't easy...
That Old Sprachgefühl. The result may pain purists, who will even find four-letter words ("usu. considered vulgar") in the new lexicon. They appear now because the most cultured (urbane, polished) Americans are used to earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would...
...ain't just...
...ain't 'tall worried," said he grandly. "The Government's going to take care of all this here...