Word: man
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abramian, a small man with gray hair, dresses in a baseball cap and plaid shirt--much like the other students in the Northeastern University library...
...film's wit and charm. It's nice to see an African-American story set outside the 'hood, and we'll keep calling hunky Taye Diggs a star of the future until he's 60. But he'll have to be in movies better than The Best Man...
...election is a reaction to the previous President--and that goes double when the guy has problems defining the word is. The conventional wisdom last year was that America would react to Clinton by choosing a leader who put rectitude above all else. But that hasn't happened. The Man to Beat, George W., has made clear that he was once "young and irresponsible." For a while, it seemed that the reaction to Clinton might be ideological. Nope. Lots of candidates--Gore, Bush--are hugging the middle, Clinton-style...
Even children do it. Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're 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...
...also combine words into bigger words and sentences, using the second trick of language, rules. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that isn't news but when a man bites a dog, it is. Rules let us convey news by reshuffling words...