[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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