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I knew Dean was an ain'ter! I've seen people say they don't like it when fic authors have him using that word because it's not how Dean talks. WRONG. Wrongity wrong wrong.

Not to be smug about it or anything.

in case this is interesting (?) to anyone else. while talking to @weaksspot​ we were like, does sam ever say “ain’t”? so i researched, because apparently i miss uni.

total tally: DEAN: 107 instances | SAM: 16 instances (detailed list under the cut)

notes:

* out of sam’s 16 total instances, two of them are from soulless!sam

** season 10: out of dean’s 11 instances, four of them are from demon!dean

*** season 15: out of dean’s 2 instances, one of them is from young!dean in a flashback

bobby is the king of “ain’t” but i was too lazy to count him.

basis for analysis: spnwiki transcripts (which does mean that the results of the tally may be skewed, obviously) with the help of spntranscriptsearch

hypotheses and theories:

DISPROVEN: as sam distances himself more and more from his college life (where he may have tried to drop the dialect to fit in with his peers), he assimilates to dean’s speech patterns over time

DISPROVEN (kind of): the episodes where sam says “ain’t” were written by the same people - 3/14 episodes each were written by Ben Edlund and Andrew Dabb respectively; but at the end of the day it all comes down to jarpad, really. i can’t imagine that the scripts decide whether actors use “aren’t” or “ain’t” (?)

UNRESOLVED: why was dean (quote) “cowboying it up” so much in s7. you could argue that if this development had happened in s8 that it were related to purgatory and his proximity to benny (who obviously uses the contraction liberally). but what was going on here

UNRESOLVED: what the hell happened after s10

results:

none. there is no rhyme or reason to any of this

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