# An American Language Question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-language-question/972522 "2022-09-30T23:10:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-language-question/972522/10 "2022-10-01T03:48:26Z")

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[Perhaps this one.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-in-front-of-a-verb-why/809411) I located it by searching for “a-fixin”.

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