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We peel potatoes if we are the designated potato peeler in our family. Strangely, given the great variety of verbs in the English language ...

Today we learn that all Korean adjectives are actually verbs... and there's a jolly lot of them. Ollie is studying Korean ...

In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.

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English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to ...

Compared with English’s word train, there are no obvious similarities with Czech vlak. However, a bit of linguistics can ...