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.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
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