[ovt]

I wonder how common the use of "ain't" is today. I grew up in the rural US in the 1980s, and it was common. And today I don't hear it, but I live in a more... well, educted area. It throws me off when I see it in writing now.

[azhenley]

I think it is just more common to say it rather than write it (I too have noticed this).