doesn't/don't

[Page Stephens]

I should have said third but then this is not the first time I have uploaded
in haste and repented at leisure.

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From: "Barbara Need" <nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: doesn't/don't


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> 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