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Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 57 views • 3:59YouTube description: They're just tiny marks on the page, but a lot can depend on them. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 399 views • 1:42YouTube description: Why say a whole sentence when just a word will do? You might never have noticed that these English words contain whole phrases within them. Produced for Mental Floss... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 428 views • 1:53YouTube description: Octopus, platypus, walrus…there’s something about that –us ending that makes us hesitate when we want to make a plural. Here's what you need to know before you pluralize.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 270 views • 2:25YouTube description: How did Q and U get to be partners? It's a tiny window back to the origins of our writing system. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 404 views • 2:49YouTube description: Some times a mishearing leads to the birth of a word. Here are some words we invented by getting them wrong. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 774 views • 2:40YouTube description: It varies from town to town, or even within families. Part of the problem with the word pecan has to do with the way it came into the English language. Produced for Mental Floss,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 656 views • 3:17YouTube description: Welcome to the world of contronyms, where words mean something--as well as its opposite. Produced for Mental Floss. (via digg)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 728 views • 3:10YouTube description: Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Produced for Mental Floss. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 622 views • 2:20YouTube description: We know it as those scary Gothic-Viking-Teutonic dots, but they are so much more. Here is story of the umlaut. Produced for Mental Floss. (via digg)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 609 views • 4:02- 1