ain’t

contraction, informal, ‘am not’, ‘are not’, ‘is not’ (COD)

“I ain’t much of a storyteller, I guess.”

“I had a couple opportunities to go, but it ain’t wise leaving a young wife alone.”

“My next birthday is 90.”
“Wow. That’s exciting.”
“Ha! No it ain’t.”

“Ma, there ain’t no boys at Notre Dame [Secondary School].”

“Old Len held the mortgage on the farm up home. He come in, and he said, ‘It ain’t my money, [its] somebody else[‘s], and they want their money’… Well, what’ll we do? And I said, ‘Well the only thing if we’re going to make any money out of is the cows’ … He said, ‘I’ll give you a hundred dollars a piece’, and he counted it out on the table. Hundred dollar bills, looked big then.”

“Some computer guys were there, thank god, because it was way beyond my scope now. I said, ‘Why, you know, doesn’t A go into B? It’s supposed to, and it ain’t working. It’s having trouble reading. I don’t know what it’s doing.’ I said, ‘this is one of the nights when me reading a couple of my articles just ain’t going to cut it’.”

“Tom was saying they’re coming back out there where he is.”
“The rats?”
“Yeah. But I ain’t — there’s been none — I ain’t seen none here in years.”