It’s considered to be “nonstandard’ Englsh.

Definitions:

1. am not : are not : is not

2. have not : has not

3. do not : does not : did not

For all the people who say it isn’t a contraction of anything,

it first appeared in the 1700’s, coming from “an’t,” which was a contraction of am not and are not. It was originally used by the upper classes as well as the uneducated.

I hate that “word”. It sounds uneducated.

We no how to say and spell Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious too, but that doesn’t mean it’s a real word either.

well, it’s a contraction, (thought it’s not a word so it can’t possibly be a contraction…) anyway, there aren’t any words put together that can spell this out. If there were it’d probably be like…

1) ‘ai’ not

2) ‘taint’ not…

neither makes sence…

therefore ‘ain’t ISN’T a word. 🙂

Ain’t is a cross between aren’t and isn’t. If you think about it, ain’t seems cooler than saying isn’t, i.e. “She isn’t happy” isn’t as neat as “She ain’t happy.” It’s not an official word, just an accepted one; I think one of these days it will be since it’s so widely used.

Ain’t ain’t a word, cuz it ain’t in the dictionary, and I ain’t gonna say it no more.