My mam she wouldn't think -a lett in' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, p.( slang ) clitic form of o' lott a, loads a, cupp a, kind a, sort a.Added for metrical reasons to poetry and verse.Marks nouns, with a foundation in Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, implying femininity.Īdded to lines of poetry and verse to maintain metrics.Representing Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish feminine nouns. ( slang ) Alternative form of -'ve who'd a thunk it? should a, could a, would a.Changes an element or substance into an oxide.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key) : /ə/.Marks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us.( Received Pronunciation ) enPR : ə, IPA (key) : /ə/.Representing the nominative singular case ending of Latin first-declension feminine nouns. Gangst a - “gangster” broth a - “brother” ( Black English and slang ) Used to replace -er in nouns.Me fath a was a cork a burn a doon the shipyard - “My father was a corker burner at the shipyard.”
( Northern England ) Same as -er in Standard English.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key) : /æ/.Possibly due to the propensity in some non-rhotic dialects to pronounce words ending in -er as if they ended in an -a.