The word "ain't".

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No matter what you say or do, you will never please everyone.

I've always heard haint was a ghost. My grandparents called them that.

As for it not being a word or only used by low class uneducated people, it's pretty much infiltrated everything. It's in lots of music, novels, there's even "Ain't Misbehaving"

Yeah,here too on the haints,but some of the really old folks that are dead would use it this way, "Haint nuthin'lay like a white leghorn chicken."
I've read somewhere that is a remanent of Elizabethian English but I'm sorry I don't remember where.

All words are completely arbitrary and spoken languages are never very logical anyway.


Here is an example of an ordinary sentence that is logically inconsistent with its desired meaning, "You use your credit-card only if you do not either have enough cash, or enough money on your debit to make a purchase."

Typically either-or sentences logically mean exclusive-or, which means that it is a true statement only if one, but not the other is true. An example is that if I said, "I will either do my physics homework, or my mechanical engineering homework today," then that would be a true statement only if I did one homework and not the other. In this sentence, "You are allowed either to have a dog or a cat in the apartment," then clearly what is meant is that you are not allowed both, but it it is not meant that you are not allowed to have no pets, which is what is technically being said if either-or has a consistent meaning.

In the first example I gave, what is being said would technically appear to be a not exclusive or gate, which means that it is true only if neither, or both conditions are true. So if words are to have consistent meanings, then that would mean that you use your credit card when you don't have enough cash or credit, OR when you DO have both enough cash and credit. Obviously that is not what was meant.

When I was younger I noticed inconsistencies like these in almost every sentence, and it f****d up my SAT scores because I couldn't tell what was being asked. Now I do not notice them as frequently. I guess it just took a couple decades for me to get used to what people mean when they say things.

"You've not yet seen anything" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Funny how improper words use actual punctuation.

I say "aint" when I specifically want to sound backwoods.
"Aint narry" (have never) is one that I especially like.

That's because the proper terminology is "Y'all ain't seen nuttin yet, ya hear me?"

Living in Britain, 'ain't' is a word I hear rarely. I sometimes use it, but when I do, it's only when talking to friends.
I know it ain't a proper word, but that ain't gonna stop me from using it.

I've been told that "ain't" is not a word, but later on in life, I learned it is slang. Even back then, I couldn't stop saying that word because it has become such a habit, and now I've grown accustomed to it.

Such an addicting word to say, ain't it?

That's another thing: the lack of a collective second-person pronoun in Standard English!
In Australia we use "youse".

Yeah. And they have proper spellings, too.

The above sentence and "Hey ya'll watch this!" are both common last words of redneck guys.

I ain't no redneck, but sho' nuff ma momma n daddeh was!

I don't use that word very often but remembered other people using it though.

Ain't no mountain high enough... Sorry, got a little carried away there.