This is fascinating. I assume "feet-a-scrapin'" would be construed as a chunked progressive verb after the first a-prefix (which would also have a hyphen)? At 02:03 PM 6/23/2004 -0400, you wrote: >from my files: > >08/19/88 > >youngish Knoxville area native (as she was giving a pedicure) on the >telephone - to a child?: > >"I'm a feet a-scrapin'." > >Bethany