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“There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.”

Responsibility Duty Machines Paid Bills Verbs Insignificance Irregular Verbs

Author:W. H. Auden

“Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.”

Humans Language Numbers Relation Verbs Human Relations Irregular Verbs

Book:Papers and Journals

Source: Papers and Journals

“You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.”

Believe Kind Hate Mail Verbs Hate Mail Irregular Verbs

Author:Steven Pinker

“I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.”

Years Language Memories Lovers Research Fundamentals Driven Distinction Obsessive Verbs Cognitive Processing Computation Irregular Verbs

Author:Steven Pinker

“The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.”

Language Cents English Language Verbs Top 10 Irregular Verbs

Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden

“There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.”

Stills Left Debt Scotland Verbs Scotch Scots Irreparable Irregular Verbs

Author:Ivor Cutler