I know we don’t have a contracted way to say “am I not?” but I just don’t understand the decision of using “are” over “is” or the uncontracted version of such questions.
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Linguistic drift.
As it became more and more common to use the contradiction as part of the question, asking “am I not” sounded excessively formal. So people came up with a new way to say it casually.
In Southern United States English it is not a problem whatsoever because we just use “ain’t I?”.
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