> > I anm't (I invented that alternative contraction)
>
> Well... the contraction "amn't" (am not) has been in use since the thirteenth century, at least, though it has dropped out of common usage lately, having been adapted to the more user-friendly "ain't" and then attacked by first-grade teachers until it dropped completely from sight.
>
> Dar "Do you believe that?" ien

You mean I didn't invent a spiffy new contraction? :-( Oh well, I'll use it anyway!

-Morris Cecil "I amn't too happy about this" Glalet, Tue 20 Jul A.D. 1999