Re: About Romance natlangs and conlangs (Re: ) (LONG)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 21, 1999, 19:27 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> & [the a-verbing form] still survives, I believe, in some US dialects.
Definitely. Indeed, there's a sort of cliche' which has made it into
even dialects without the a- forms, "The times, they are a-changin'"
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