Ain't (was Re: Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's

[potioncat]

> CJ:
> :-) I feel the same way about "maths". It ain't plural, why stick an 
s on it?

Potioncat:
Ain't! Boy, that takes me down memory lane. I haven't heard that word 
in years. Well, yes, I have heard it from time to time in the same 
sense CJ used it. But not often and this time, it sent me to my 
childhood. When I was a regular user of ain't, we didn't say maths or 
math. The course was arithmetic.