doesn't/don't

[Barbara Need]

At 11:04 -0500 8/03/04, Page Stephens wrote:
>A friend of mine, Banjo Jan, has been bugging me about this subject
>for the past month or so.
>
>I do not know the answer so I thought I would put it up on this list.
>
>Does anyone on this list know when "doesn't" replaced "don't" as the
>first personal singular in correct usage?

It hasn't as far as I know.

You mean: I doesn't know who he is? I doesn't care about that? I
can't say that.

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics