The Present Participles preceded by a pleonastic -a are very numerous.
| a-coming | (T. T. T. 133). |
| a-pecking | (» 141). |
| a-siffing | (» »). |
| a-going | (Sketches 196). |
| a-collecting | (» 200). |
| a-blowing | (Three Men On The Bummel 18). |
| Etc., etc. | |
To Be.
It wur instead of it was is dialectic or vulgar. The samples I have found in Jerome (Three Men in a Boat 221, Woodb. Farm 8 + 10 + 56) are obviously all dialectic.
The uncommon form warn’t instead of wasn’t occurs in Woodb. Farm (p. 8, 1), but is evidently also dialectic.
Of the common anomalous form they’s instead of they are there is no example in Jerome.
To Have.
Have not and has not are regularly transformed into ain’t.
I ain’t got a bloomin’ sixpence on me. (Sketches 128. 12.)
’E ain’t never been his old self since then. (Sketches 201. 3.) Etc.