Post #1414701

@IanMoore3000 I hope you don't mind my saying that that's a subjective and inconsistent rationalization. It's a pity you were taught to dislike the word. Linguistically it's perfectly fine and is, if anything, more logical than "aren't" in its natural syntactic position – which is why children often produce it instinctively before being taught to avoid it (if they're not Irish or if their guardians/teachers have a thing against it)