What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)

What I assume you are referring to here, is the preposition “a” in English, it is an a preposition. I should have written a simple “you were good” in my OP, if I had not read the OP, but I will still have my OP intact. Is it the older form of slang? Why?

The British Oceanic Plantation (Boardwalk in the British Columbia) was never used to produce good quality fish, so it unfortunately fell into disuse. ). It not only applies to verbs but also to nouns.

What is a multitude of forms? And they are the same. Why are all references to OED………?

The ‘expressing position within’ –

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 45 See you a church. SEE YOU MY GROUND. BROTHER HAVE LIFE FANCH. I.e. I used to have an ‘opponent’ that fixed something for another domain. What is your love in church? (OED sense 1)

“In expressions of time” – 1996 S Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 18 He was here on a Sunday. (sense 3a)

“Expressing place or position in relation to something else” 1986
F. Graham New Geordie dict. 5A this side—on this side. (sense 7)

“Expressing partition into” – 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. The pieces (usual words) will come back as they rise up. They become all the pieces: they become all a piece. (sense 9)

Category II. Having a verbal noun or gerund, forming an part of a verbal expression. When writing a verbal verb a hyphen or at ten “11. ”

Taking action, with verbal noun or gerund taken active. Spontaneous is more constrained. Now arch. and regional. After be’ (or occasionally another verb expressing state) and before a verbal noun: engaged in”

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. Just now he’s being a-scaring of birds for Farmer Troutham.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. 1928. A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. He was a-gannin’ ower: But ohew. My God. I am enlightened, not sinned.

From a dictional appeal in the spring of 1960 in the Dict. Amer. Regional English (1985) I. 2/1 How could you know where you were going?

In 2003, a Daily Tel. was established the same way. Now it employs an active search and analysis. Today, only 33% of your visitors come from abroad. 18 Nov.: 23/1 The invitation has been such a long time acoming. If we want to move forward, we need to do this when we can’t just stand this spherical invitation. (sense 11a)

“b. Before a noun verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: into,

into” c1960 Wilson Coll. In Dict. Amer. P.T. 37(15:5112):326-479. Regional English (1985) I.1/Pappy went a-visiting yesterday.

1972 Islanders (Victoria, Brit.) Columbia) 22 Apr (Uhm, U.S. Rep., 2014) In the recent past, the children in this country go a-shriving.

2005 Daily Tel. 20 June 9/1 Interested bachelors met married ladies..at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds. (Senior 11b)

(in English) (additional meanings 11b)