Why aren't you grown up? vs Why, aren'y you grown up!

Both phrases are incorrect. The correct form would be: 'Why aren't you grown up?' The use of the comma in the second phrase is unnecessary and incorrect.

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Why aren't you grown up?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a question asking why someone has not matured or developed as expected.

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Why don't we act like a grown up?
Why can't I just dress like a grown-up?
So, you two finally acting like grown-ups?
Echo's imprint is the kid grown up?
See how Carlo's grown up?
See what I mean about being a grown-up?
Mama, why are all the grown-ups sick?
My little boy, when he's a grown-up?
Is that David Blaize all grown up?
Like, I've never grown up?
Wait, I'm not even a grown-up?
What... how am I not grown up?
-Can't you wait till you're grown up?
Or isn't it a story for grown-ups?
You know the best part about being a grown-up?
So, are you too exhausted from your big night out, Mr. Grown-up?
Mimi... can we try to talk like grown-ups?
Lassie, are you glad we're both grown-up?
How do I say this like a grown-up?
I mean, really, what's so great about being grown up?

Why, aren'y you grown up!

This phrase is incorrect. The comma placement is unnecessary and disrupts the correct structure of the question.

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When you grown up, you'll realise that's what human beings do.
And we're going to make a better job of it than you grown-ups did.
"Equidistant" - so grown-up!
My scruffy niece is all grown up!
It's rude to throw things at grown-ups!
goes through like the whole day that he's grown up!
The kid you chased out 12 years ago, too scared to yell, has already grown up!
You're going to enter junior high that means you're a grown up!
! And leave the rest of it to the grown-ups!
Boy, Aria, you... you've really grown up!
Not with a bunch of kids but with real grown-ups!
This office is paradise - grown-ups talking about grown-up things.
You're a grown-up doing your grown-up job with other grown-ups.
But he said grown-ups wouldn't understand.
Stop using your grown up brains and start...
Grown-ups can forget... children can't.
Aren'y you the guy from the canteen?
They're grown-ups who made grown-up decisions.
The grown-up kind that sells things that grown-ups want...
Grown-up kids make big old grown-up mistakes.

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Why aren't you grown up? vs Why, aren'y you grown up!