Category talk:English terms prefixed with a-
Latest comment: 4 years ago by 2600:1700:AF20:BA30:C5:D4CB:594E:970F in topic "atheist" is missing.
This can't possibly include all words[edit]
This is because, in some dialects(for example, the Appalachian dialect[south United States]), "a-" is/was extremely productive, and pretty much every verb that can take "-ing" can also take "a-", and a phrase like "I'd have been" can be shortened like "I'd a-been". JustinCB (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that those should be included- they're not lexically part of the term, but an independent particle attached to the verb, or perhaps an inflectional prefix. For instance, would anyone say "*I'll a-walk" or "*he a-says"? Chuck Entz (talk) 21:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
"atheist" is missing.[edit]
"atheist" is missing.
2600:1700:AF20:BA30:C5:D4CB:594E:970F 22:40, 8 March 2020 (UTC)