
Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)
The History of English Podcast
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Modern English Variations of the Verb to B
The variations of b that we have in modern english didn't evolve at some later point. They originated in the original indo european language itself. B m is r was wer has no obvious correlation to each other, unlike sing, sing, sung, or drink, drank drunk,. Or even jump, jumps jumped. Each version is a completely different word, seemingly unrelated to the next.
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