Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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The Three Way Distinction in Verbs
Abode is thought of as a noun, a place. Abod has not been in common usage for a few centuries. That's one of those a th that dropped out like gid. The past tens of chide fromce yesachitten or a holp as are still used by some dialects. Shrank, shrunk a, where the shrank and the stank are giving way to the parcible form. No shrank on stank, no shrank and stankand admittedly, ou have been hard to have a movie called honey,. i shrank the kids stead of honey, i shrunk the kids.
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