answers: 1961
context: changed into "an't". "An't" for "is not" may also have filled a gap as an extension of the already-used conjugations for "to be not". "An't" with a long "a" sound began to be written as "ain't", which first appears in writing in 1749. By the time "ain't" appeared, "an't" was already being used for "am not", "are not", and "is not". "An't" and "ain't" coexisted as written forms well into the nineteenth century. "Han't" or "ha'n't", an early contraction for "has not" and "have not", developed from the elision of the "s" of "has not" and the "v" of "have </s> was met with considerable criticism for its descriptive (rather than prescriptive) approach. The dictionary's treatment of "ain't" was subject to particular scorn, since it seemed to overrule the near-unanimous denunciation of that word by English teachers. Since the 1961 publication of the "Third", Merriam-Webster has reprinted the main text of the dictionary with only minor corrections. To add new words, they created an "Addenda Section" in 1966, included in the front matter, which was expanded in 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1993, and 2002. However, the rate of additions was much slower than it had been throughout the previous hundred years. </s> and a temptation to misplaced commas". He states that "sensible writers have always ignored the rule, and sensible grammarians have now abandoned it". A survey conducted by Sterling A. Leonard in 1932 found that respondents considered the use of inanimate "whose" established; Raymond D. Crisp replicated the survey in 1971 and found that respondents considered the usage disputable. Mary Vaiana Taylor reported in 1974 that two-thirds of post-secondary teaching assistants would still mark the construction wrong on a student's paper. "Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage" states that, amongst "the current books" that discussed the subject as of the late 20th
question: when was ai n 't put into the dictionary