When was ain't put into the dictionary?
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September 1961
Webster's Dictionary List of English words with disputed usage Ain't Webster's Third New International Dictionary
When was ain't put into the dictionary?
Ain't Webster's Third New International Dictionary Talk:Dictionary/Archive 1 Webster's Dictionary List of English words with disputed usage Irregardless The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Talk:Contractions of negated auxiliary verbs in English It ain't over till the fat lady sings Wikipedia:Tertiary-source fallacy
<b>Ain&#39;t</b> as a contraction for has not/have not first appeared <b>in dictionaries</b> in the 
1830s, and appeared in 1819 in Niles&#39; Weekly Register: Strike! Why I <b>ain&#39;t</b> got&nbsp;... Webster&#39;s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, 
Unabridged was ... As David M. Glixon <b>put</b> it in the Saturday Review: &quot;Having 
descended from God&#39;s throne of supreme authority, the ... The New Yorker ran a 
cartoon showing a receptionist <b>at the dictionary&#39;s</b> office telling a visitor that &quot;Dr. 
Gove <b>ain&#39;t</b> in. Early unsectioned discussions. Discussion 1. Wikipedia has a &#39;sister&#39; dictionary, 
Wictionary, but ... It&#39;s not uncommon to see a usage marked as &quot;illiterate&quot; or &quot;
incorrect&quot; (see &quot;<b>ain&#39;t</b>&quot; or &quot;refute&quot; in the Second Edition, 1989). Try to find a ... May 
be we could <b>put</b> &quot;Six links rule&quot; <b>in Dictionary</b> or Lexicography? Everybody is 
welcomed&nbsp;... Webster&#39;s <b>Dictionary</b> is any of the <b>dictionaries</b> edited by Noah Webster <b>in</b> the 
early nineteenth ... The <b>dictionary&#39;s</b> treatment of &quot;<b>ain&#39;t</b>&quot; was subject to particular 
scorn, since it seemed to overrule the ... Pronouncing and Explanatory <b>Dictionary</b> 
of the English Language <b>brought</b> accusations of plagiarism from Webster. The 
rivalry&nbsp;... Nevertheless, <b>ain&#39;t</b> is used by educated speakers and writers for deliberate effect, 
what Oxford American <b>Dictionary</b> describes as &quot;tongue-<b>in</b>-cheek&quot; or &quot;reverse&nbsp;... Irregardless is a word sometimes used <b>in</b> place of regardless or irrespective, 
which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word 
appeared <b>in</b> print as early as 1795. Most <b>dictionaries</b> list it as non-standard or 
incorrect usage, and recommend ... A counterexample is provided <b>in ain&#39;t</b>, which 
has an &quot;ancient genealogy&quot; <b>at</b>&nbsp;... The Oxford <b>Dictionary</b> of Quotations, first published by the Oxford University 
Press <b>in</b> 1941, ... For example, some quotations (like “The opera <b>ain&#39;t</b> over till the 
fat lady sings”) become proverbial. These are usually included if they can be 
traced to&nbsp;... &quot;<b>Ain&#39;t</b> is also obligatory in some fixed phrases...[edit]. &quot;<b>Ain&#39;t</b> is also obligatory in 
some fixed ... <b>Ain&#39;t</b> has content beyond what&#39;s found <b>in the dictionary</b>. ... That 
secondary development doesn&#39;t <b>put</b> hain&#39;t at the same level as amn&#39;t in my 
opinion. As Götterdämmerung is about the end of the world (or <b>at</b> least the world of the 
Norse gods), <b>in</b> a very significant way &quot;it is [all] over when the fat lady sings.&quot; The
&nbsp;... A <b>dictionary</b> cannot be used to prove that a term&#39;s narrow meaning <b>in</b> a specific ... 
<b>In</b> short, traditionalists got very angry that it included things like <b>ain&#39;t</b> as &quot;real&nbsp;...
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