--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As for "ain't", it could be argued that it's not so
> much grammatically wrong
> as sloppy - or just colloquial - English
I agree - I don't see why we think of it as "wrong" -
it ain't wrong! I think it's a form of class-ism.
>
> One of my favourite grammatical howlers is in Paul
> McCartney's Live & Let
> Die, which contains the immortal line
>
> "But in this ever-changing world in which we live
> in"
That one drives me nuts too - I tried to convince
myself that maybe he was really saying "in this
ever-changing world in which we're living", but it
ain't never worked for me.
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