Word: commoner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While children use the rules of conjugation to create the correct forms of all regular verbs, he argued, they must memorize the forms of all irregular verbs. The most common irregular verbs, such as "be," "go" and "have," are never regularized because they are so common...
Barron and Leaning, who are members of the Lowell House Senior Common Room, located the Zejnullahus in Montenegro. They helped transport the four to Albania, and worked with the First Unitarian Parish of Concord, Mass., to bring the Zejnullahus to the United States in mid-July...
What Ventura and Bush have in common is that neither is afraid to shock. The difference is that for Bush, acting like a jerk seems to be a political calculation...
...apparent reason, the media have become very excited about For Common Things, a book by a Yale law student named Jedediah Purdy. No one else is reading it, but in my earnest effort to join the media elite and thus get a promotion, I too want to write about this book...
...Purdy's publicist and asked if I could speak to him. Fifteen minutes later, Purdy called. This made me think that earnestness might be a good thing. Then I realized that you have to jump on any media opportunity when you're trying to sell a book called For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today...