On Aug 20, 9:14 am, "barkerpl...@hotmail.com"
[nq:1]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside Ireland. It may have arisen from people whose language was ... form? Anyway, it always made more sense to me than "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
I've never heard "amn't I," only seen it two or three times in discussions. "Ain't I" used to be the correct contraction of "A

On Aug 20, 6:14 pm, "barkerpl...@hotmail.com"
[nq:1]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside Ireland. It may have arisen from people whose language was ... form? Anyway, it always made more sense to me than "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant?
/...mnt.../
Farhad

[nq:2]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside ... "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
[nq:1]Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant? /...mnt.../ Farhad[/nq]
I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words.

Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[nq:2]Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant? /...mnt.../ Farhad[/nq]
[nq:1]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word.

Farhad

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word. Farhad- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
No room for uniquely spelt words in a language? That sounds a bit on the stern side to me. I suspect ther

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word. Farhad- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
I see the following on the subject in wiki: " It has been suggested that the reason why "amn't" is not as

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word.[/nq]
English dictionaries aren't complete lists of words. There are words that we willn't find in them, even though the words are comprehensible and construct

[nq:1]English dictionaries aren't complete lists of words. There are words that we willn't find in them, even though the words are comprehensible and constructed in accordance with a regular pattern.[/nq]
That's true.
[nq:1]The fact that "amn't" is not in dictionaries does not mean it "cannot" be an English word. It just means it is not in dictionaries.[/nq]
Not in this particular case

"Amn't" exists as an English word (or words, never sure about that) in that it has been used by many thousands of native English speakers over a period of centuries. I don't know how more established a word should be and it actually makes more grammatical sense than the standard English expression "aren't" used in England and America. Compared to the endless monsters spawned daily in the USA that

I thought someone mentioned this before. If "amn't" violates the phonological rules (of today, or of our particular regions), then a supplemental rule will explain it. . .the rule of substitution. A vowel, "i" replaces the troublesome "m". I don't know if this fits into the same category as "won't", in which one vowel "o" replaces "ill", to complete the contraction, which Peter mentions as the ful

On Aug 20, 9:14 am, "barkerpl...@hotmail.com"
[nq:1]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside Ireland. It may have arisen from people whose language was ... form? Anyway, it always made more sense to me than "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
I've never heard "amn't I," only seen it two or three times in discussions. "Ain't I" used to be the correct contraction of "A

On Aug 20, 6:14 pm, "barkerpl...@hotmail.com"
[nq:1]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside Ireland. It may have arisen from people whose language was ... form? Anyway, it always made more sense to me than "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant?
/...mnt.../
Farhad

[nq:2]I am not sure how common "amn't I" is outside ... "aren't I" which seems to have "I are" in there.[/nq]
[nq:1]Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant? /...mnt.../ Farhad[/nq]
I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words.

Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[nq:2]Can you find any word in English that has the following cluster of consonant? /...mnt.../ Farhad[/nq]
[nq:1]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word.

Farhad

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word. Farhad- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
No room for uniquely spelt words in a language? That sounds a bit on the stern side to me. I suspect ther

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word. Farhad- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -[/nq]
I see the following on the subject in wiki: " It has been suggested that the reason why "amn't" is not as

[nq:2]I searched Onelook.com for /mnt/. The 63 results were abbreviations and misspellings, but no actual words. Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage)[/nq]
[nq:1]And that's the reaon why "amn't" cannot be an English word.[/nq]
English dictionaries aren't complete lists of words. There are words that we willn't find in them, even though the words are comprehensible and construct

[nq:1]English dictionaries aren't complete lists of words. There are words that we willn't find in them, even though the words are comprehensible and constructed in accordance with a regular pattern.[/nq]
That's true.
[nq:1]The fact that "amn't" is not in dictionaries does not mean it "cannot" be an English word. It just means it is not in dictionaries.[/nq]
Not in this particular case

"Amn't" exists as an English word (or words, never sure about that) in that it has been used by many thousands of native English speakers over a period of centuries. I don't know how more established a word should be and it actually makes more grammatical sense than the standard English expression "aren't" used in England and America. Compared to the endless monsters spawned daily in the USA that

I thought someone mentioned this before. If "amn't" violates the phonological rules (of today, or of our particular regions), then a supplemental rule will explain it. . .the rule of substitution. A vowel, "i" replaces the troublesome "m". I don't know if this fits into the same category as "won't", in which one vowel "o" replaces "ill", to complete the contraction, which Peter mentions as the ful