Is it common in Irish/ scottish English, the neg.form of 'I am' as 'am'nt I?' instead of 'are'nt I?'
The usual form of the QT of negative form of ' I am ' is ' aren't I?' .But I happened to see some where that it is common in Scottish and Irish version of English of using ' amn't I?' instead of aren't I?. I hope somebody can help me in this case.

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Is it common in Irish/ scottish English, the neg.form of 'I am' as 'am'nt I?' instead of 'are'nt I?'
The usual form of the QT of negative form of ' I am ' is ' aren't I?' .But I happened to see  some where that it is common in Scottish and Irish version of English of using ' amn't I?' instead of aren't I?. I hope somebody can help me in this case.

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The word "an't" is  a rare variant spelling of aren't.

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Never. Maybe you mean "ain't"?

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I lived in Ireland for almost 4 years, and never once heard that.  The locals all said, "aren't I."

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