Simon has started contracting the phrase "I am not" as "I amn't." E.g., "I amn't going to bed right now." "I amn't a goofy kid." When I start to correct him I become tripped up by the fact that what he's doing is just applying rules of grammar in a completely logical way, even though we're used to putting the contraction someplace else in the sentence. He'll figure it out. I amn't too worried about it.
- M
1 comment:
maybe he's Irish! The Irish do this as a matter of course in what I've learned to call "Hibernian English" (never "Irish English" - asking for a fight). Nobody would turn a hair here.
Sarah (Brit in Dublin via Seattle)
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