http://blog.oup.com/2006/08/the_much_vilifi/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2006/08/the_much_vilifi/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Ross Ziskind Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:00:20 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/08/the_much_vilified_aint/#comment-305 It's interesting that Trollope, in "The Way We Live Now" (1875), uses "ain't" quite freely, in the first, second and third persons. He seems to use it as emphasis when the speaker is in the grip of a strong emotion. He doesn't make any distinction based on the social class of the speaker; the word is often used by the upper class characters in the novel. It’s interesting that Trollope, in “The Way We Live Now” (1875), uses “ain’t” quite freely, in the first, second and third persons. He seems to use it as emphasis when the speaker is in the grip of a strong emotion. He doesn’t make any distinction based on the social class of the speaker; the word is often used by the upper class characters in the novel.

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