Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uncommon Children...
...Uncommon Women and Others" by Wendy Wasserstein...
Addressing a standing-room only crowd, Pinker explained the origins of children's grammatical mistakes, the etymology of irregular verbs and why, for example, people say "slept" instead of "sleeped." His sprinkling of uncommon and incorrect forms of words throughout the talk, such as "smote," "clove" and "cleaved," elicited bursts of laughter from his audience...
...While larcenies are frequent on Harvard's campus, HUPD officials said that yesterday's incident was uncommon...
...uncommon in past years to see Epps walking through the Yard or lunching with Loker...