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Sticking to his schtick of linguistic analysis, Pinker derided hamantashen for being an irregular plural. Using the Wug Test—a common linguistic experiment—Pinker showed that “latke” to “latkes” is a progression of a regular plural form and therefore “part of our innate universal grammar” while “hamantashen” belongs to a scanty contingency of irregular plurals in English that...
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...
...diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though it would be a shame not to play since the movie is jived to slush up the heartbeats--the movie has got messages with a vengeance. And that is, really, its only problem...
...office, R. C. Benchley '12 Pinkering Snaffles, ex-roommate of Bixby and ex-book seller of New York, P. M. Hollister '13 Stolid Steve, Hugglesland manager of American Ice Trust, T. W. Barnes, 2nd, '12 Eskimo Frity, proprietor of the "Three Jolly Whalebones" in Hugglesland, S. Nichols '13 Chief Wug, of the Hugglesland Eskimos which are related by marriage to the Wah-oh-wahs, H. T. Deane '12 Ariovistus Paterson, uncle of Anne Higdig, K. S. Billings '12 Gloriana Griggs, one of the New York Griggs, E. P. Pierce '12 Anne Higdig, daughter, of James Higdig, R. Clifford '12 Etta...
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