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There’s an ongoing tag-question issue in modern English: What’s the correct tag after a statement like “I’m right…”? There are some linguists who say that the tag “am I not?” is too prissy, excessively proper, affectedly correct. And “aren’t I?” too British, while “ain’t I?” is just substandard American slang and not acceptable in educated speech. Who knows? Yet many native speakers, regardless of nationality and what the experts say, prefer “aren’t I?” to the uncontracted “am I not?” which should be used in formal writing only. I’m right, aren’t I?