<P> Ai n't as a contraction for has not / have not first appeared in dictionaries in the 1830s , and appeared in 1819 in Niles ' Weekly Register : Strike ! Why I ai n't got nobody here to strike ... Charles Dickens likewise used ai n't to mean have n't in Chapter 28 of Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844 ) : `` You ai n't got nothing to cry for , bless you ! He 's righter than a trivet ! '' </P>
<P> Ai n't as a contraction for has not / have not first appeared in dictionaries in the 1830s , and appeared in 1819 in Niles ' Weekly Register : Strike ! Why I ai n't got nobody here to strike ... Charles Dickens likewise used ai n't to mean have n't in Chapter 28 of Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844 ) : `` You ai n't got nothing to cry for , bless you ! He 's righter than a trivet ! '' </P>
when did the word ai n 't become a word in the dictionary
when did the word ai n 't become a word in the dictionary
in the 1830s
in the 1830s