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are +‎  -n’t

Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t.


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aren't

1709, contraction of are not, originally written are'n't and generally so into early 19c.


If "ain't I?" is objected to, surely "aren't I?" is very much worse. [Lady Grove, "The Social Fetich," 1907]