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Hi Anon, You wrote: My Oxford dictionary says that WANNA is american english word (or contraction), GONNA also is AmEn, but AIN`T isn`t. Which Oxford dictionary are we talking about? There are dozens of them. 'Wanna' is found in the British National Corpus. I wouldn't go as far as to...

My Oxford dictionary says that WANNA is american english word (or contraction), GONNA also is AmEn, but AIN`T isn`t.

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. had rather like had better, had best, and would rather, is a Standard expression: He had rather stay home. The contractions of had and would are of course...

X11 wrote: Hmm sometimes I face the same problem after I have written something and then posts it. Then some of what I have written is changed which is rather annoying... Furthermore, when I change colour and write something, and then changes it back to black it keeps on writing in for...

From Merriam Webster's : AIN'T Etymology: contraction of are not 1 : am not : are not : is not 2 : have not : has not 3 : do not : does not : did not -- used in some varieties of Black English Usage: Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of...

In American English, when an ending "-an", "-en", "-in", "on", "-ain" (not "ing") occurs after intervocalic "t", "tt", or "rt", the sound pattern /.tN/ is formed. When one of these endings occurs after intervocalic "dd", "d", or "rd", the sound pattern /.dN/ is formed. The /.t/ and /.d/ are...

Hi Happy, This area is a very contentious one, so it is not surprising that you find different pronouncements within and between grammar books. Here is my opinion on the examples you present: (1) 'Who did it ?' Not I.' The pronoun stands in parallel to the subject 'who', and is a...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got"....