ain't = didn't

[Jonathan Lighter]

I first encountered this about five years ago.  I think O.J. Simpson was being quoted in the _New Yorker_.

More recently,

2003 Russell Simmons _Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and More_ (N.Y.: Atria Books) 133
Lemon ain't grow up easy.  The half Puerto Rican kid from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, grew up an outlaw and describes his parents as outlaws too.

JL


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