Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diagnosed, baseball was the furthest thing from my mind. When I did come back, I was able to put the game in perspective, that it is only a game. But later in the season, when you realized how important each win was, it didn't change from the past. It's the same hunger, the same passion, the same fire. And I'm happy about that...
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...
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...
...rules. Many irregulars can be traced back over 5,500 years to a mysterious tribe that came to dominate Europe, western Asia and northern India. Its language, Indo-European, is the ancestor of Hindi, Persian, Russian, Greek, Latin, Gaelic and English. It had rules that replaced vowels: the past of senkw- (sink) was sonkw...
...being downsized to make room for daylong ABC News coverage of the millennial turnover, anchored by Peter Jennings. President Clinton is expected to address the nation near midnight, potentially bumping other programming off the airwaves. Clark - who has been host of New Year's Eve specials for the past 27 years - is still scheduled to count down the traditional ball drop in Times Square, but he won't be producing entertainment segments. "I've been relieved of those duties and just assigned to the ball," says Clark, who declined to discuss specifics about the network's decision. Guess that...