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Just got payed!
- Thread starter NWB
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Except, that wasn't really the intent of it.
I'm not out trying to change anyone's spelling. I don't urinate into the wind either.
I was making an observation about a very common misspelling and wondering if it might result in a change to the language.
any chance we can get amn't added to the English language then?
amn't? Can you use it in a sentence, please?
Which is an observation probably best posed for discussion in a thread that is about misspellings and erroneous grammar.
So "amn't" is a substitution for the word "ain't", eh? Well, if the latter is acceptable, then I guess the former might as well be...
Have you actually seen someone spell that out? Or is that just how a person might pronounce it?
Have you actually seen someone spell that out? Or is that just how a person might pronounce it?
It would be specific to "am not" while ain't is a broader term:
from wiki-
Ain't is a colloquialism and contraction for "am not", "is not", "are not", "has not", and "have not" in the common English language vernacular.
I used to be convinced it was a real word when I was about 3 or 4, around the time when creative spelling comes around. I've met a few other people who have done the same. now it's just funny.
any chance we can get amn't added to the English language then?
Of course...right after we add shouldn't've
Of course...right after we add shouldn't've
I have a few personal favorites that I use from time to time:
"sorta" and "oughtta"
Love'em! Oh yeah, and "em" too
any chance we can get amn't added to the English language then?
He he, stranger things have happened!
Just give it time...
Not reading the link is also quite common on the Internet.
I honestly haven't seen "payed" used that much, maybe I'm hanging around the right forums.
Not really, unless you're on a traditionally built wooden sailing vessel and talking about a very specific aspect of that vessel's operation or maintenance. All of the "acceptable" modern uses of that spelling are nautical
"Redbeard payed out another fathom of line"
"Billy Boy burned his foot with hot tar as he payed the deck seams"
BTW one of the other nautical examples shown on dictionary.com - "payed off" as a course change - I've only seen in print spelled paid, as in "he quickly put the tiller down and paid her off to leeward"
But then again, wot would teh loosers on on a dictionary cite know about sailing ships anyway?
It's an old abbreviation for "amount"
With greetings and felicitations,
Yr Obd't Svt,
Anchor Hoy
