In contrast to "irregardless," which has been stuck at the nonstandard usage level for at least 16 years, and "irrevelant," which appears to have fallen to the level of sub-substandard English, other words once shunned by the prestige group of the community have made significant strides forward. "Drownd," formerly a substandard variant of the verb "drown" has moved up to nonstandard variant status, and "learn" in the sense of "teach" has leaped from being a front-of-the-book example of substandard usage to being nonstandard. "Hisself" has endured a bumpier ride. In 1981, it and "drownded" were the two representatives of substandard English offered in the Explanatory Notes section at the beginning of Webster's Third New International Dictionary. In 1991 it was nowhere to be found; but in 1994 it reappeared, neatly gentrified into a "chiefly dialect" word (the Usage notes explain that "The label 'dial' for 'dialect' indicates that the pattern of use of a word or sense is too complex for summary labeling"). The true Cinderella story, however, relates to the word "ain't" in the sense of "haven't." We'll review it next.