It comes from NASCAR's favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who, upon finishing a close second a few days ago in a race at Martinsville, Va., wiped the sweat and tears from his eyes and said this:
I ain't won in a long time. I was thinking at the end I was meant to win the damn race.
Ain't it just a shame, Dale Junior. (That's Junior pictured with this blog post.)
I used to think "Ain't" was not a word, but guess what? Google defines it this way:
Ain't is a colloquialism and a contraction originally used for "am not", but also used for "is not", "are not", "has not", or "have not" in the common vernacular. In some dialects it is also used as a contraction of "do not", "does not", and "did not" (e.g. I ain't know that). ...
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