Word: brung
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...constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...
...Slim Steelers (-2.5) over RAVENS. Having gone a Hondo-esque 5-10 and still vanquished his puny interoffice foes, L. I. Slim figures that if he dances with the ones that brung ?im, he can?t go wrong. Herewith the locks, the Steelers make it 2-0 against an underachieving Ravens squad, setting the stage for an unexpected rampage this year in the AFC Central. Kordell?s gonna be just fine...
...dubious proposition. But if you had your druthers, wouldn't you really want to see the biologists backed up by engineers? Rachel Carson backed by Will Carrier: The Chief really did know how to get things done. Molly Ivins' latest book is You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You. She lives in Texas
...choice was preordained. After all, the lie in all its variations--the half-truth, the legalism, the critical omission, the elastic wordplay--is what he knows. Acrobatics--"I didn't inhale," the Flowers denial, the draft--are what brung him to the dance...
...Once Kabila's government began whipping up anti-Tutsi sentiment, Rwanda felt compelled to act." With the battle lines drawn by Kabila's anti-Tutsi purge, Congo's president may wind up with plenty of time to mull over the maxim that you have to dance with them that brung...