Re: CHAT: Linux etc. was(Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. forGod))

Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
>         Times are a'changing, they say :-) BTW (and to save the
> offtopic), that "a+<verb in gerund>" thing that I've seen many times in
> english is something that I don't understand :-m Where does it come
> from?
It's the original form of the progressive.  It's derived from the Old
English form which used the preposition "on" between the inflected form
of "to be" and the participle, so something like "Ic eom on singing",
lit. "I am on singing", later it slurred to a- and then eventually
vanished.

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