Timeline for Origin and correctness of “ain’t no”?
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| May 9, 2013 at 13:14 | comment | added | erewok | I certainly wouldn't argue it was. It seems like a likely candidate for the origin story the original poster asked about, however. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 12:28 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Ain't ... no is by no means confined to BVE (now usually 'AAVE', African-American); it is employed to the best of my knowledge in every colloquial American dialect, and probably every American idiolect unconstrained by formality. "Ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal" -Bob Dylan, 1962 | |
| May 9, 2013 at 5:25 | comment | added | congusbongus | On your last sentence, the wikipedia article on ain't should be sufficient. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 5:22 | history | answered | erewok | CC BY-SA 3.0 |