amn't
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (stressed form) IPA(key): /ˈæm(ə)nt/
Audio: (file)
- (unstressed form) IPA(key): /əm(ə)nt/
- Rhymes: (stressed) -æmənt
Verb
[edit]amn't
- (Ireland, Scotland, rarely elsewhere, nonstandard) am not
- 1904, Oliver St. John Gogarty, The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus:
- If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine,
He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, →OL, ch. 15:
- Amn’t I with you? Amn’t I your girl?
- 2004 An Coimisinéir Teanga, Frequently Asked Questions
- I phoned a government office but nobody there had any Irish so I couldn't do my business with them in Irish. Amn't I entitled under the Act to conduct business with any Government office in Irish?
- 2017 November 18, Al Porter, quoted in Patrick Freyne, "Al Porter: ‘After wild sex with a priest, I realised the priesthood was not for me’", The Irish Times:
- Now, I’m very conscious of what I am or amn’t referencing from those eras, and I’m so comfortable with that – being a reinvention of a retro kind of thing.
Usage notes
[edit]"amn't" is mainly used in Scotland and Ireland. Usage of "amn't" elsewhere in the English-speaking world is rare and typically only done in jest or as an error made by young children.
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[edit]Contraction
[edit]amn't
- contraction of am + not
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *né
- English terms suffixed with -n't
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weǵʰ-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wekʷ-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂óyu
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æmənt
- Rhymes:English/æmənt/2 syllables
- English non-lemma forms
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- Irish English
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- English nonstandard terms
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- English contractions
- Scots terms suffixed with -n't
- Scots non-lemma forms
- Scots contractions