If U Seek Amy

[Victor Steinbok]

This was my sense as well. I also wanted to suggest puntuation

> so, mind, my Boy, see, you a'n't he

Or, shorter, "mind you, you ain't he".

VS-)


On 3/29/2010 4:43 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> _An't_ > _ain't_ : _can't_ > _cain't_, except that "an't" is extinct
> and "can't" is standard in AmE.
>

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