Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against Fairfield and Dartmouth, however, Meagher returned to form with four saves and only one goal scored in 170 minutes of play...
Meagher has been aided by the return of junior captain Ryan Kelly, who injured his hand earlier in the season. Although Kelly has only slowly returned to early-season form, the defender's strong, gutsy play in the middle of the field has contributed greatly to the Crimson's recent success...
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to overcome in Europe is retailer reluctance. In the past, licensed goods from fellow European companies were often cheap promotional giveaways, so many retailers view licensed products as a form of advertising that doesn't belong on their shelves. That puts the onus on marketers to convince retailers that most of today's licensed products are well-made goods associated with top brands. It's a slow slog. But, says David Isaacs, Equity Management's international director, "it can be done...
Verbs in English come in two flavors. Regular verbs like walk and smell form the past tense by adding -ed: Today I walk, yesterday I walked. English has thousands of them, and new ones arise every day, thanks to our ability to apply rules instinctively. When people first heard to spam, to mosh and to diss, they did not run to the dictionary to look up the past tenses; they knew they were spammed, moshed and dissed...
...irregulars are vulnerable too because they depend on fallible memory. If a verb declines in popularity, speakers may not hear its irregular form often enough to fix it securely in memory. They fall back on -ed, changing the language for following generations. That is why forms from Chaucer's time such as chide-chid and writhe-wrothe turned into chided and writhed...