[Ads-l] Yale Grammar listing
Tom Zurinskas
truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 26 09:23:44 UTC 2015
http://bit.ly/1IlzyU4
It says in SW Connecticut there is a lot of "a" prefixing (as in I'm a-going).
but I've never heard that phrasing there having grown up in Danbury Conn.
The first time I heard it was "The times they are a-changin" by Bob Dylan
Tom Zurinskas, Originally SWConn 20 yrs, college Tenn 3, work NJ 33, now FL 12.The need for truespel phonetics - http://justpaste.it/truespelnow
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