doesn't/don't

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:32 AM -0600 3/8/04, Barbara Need wrote:
>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

It's a VERY recent change; you might have missed it.

Seriously, I think Page meant "was replaced by" rather than "replaced".

larry horn