CHICAGO (Reuters) - Irregular verbs are the bane of any effort to learn English, but new research looking at how language evolves suggests frequent use keeps pesky irregular verbs like "take" from ...

bringed a huge change in our use of the language. Now researchers believe more of the irregular verbs that make English such a rich and varied experience are heading for extinction. In future, 'stank' ...

Tracing the evolution of English verbs over 1,200 years -- from the Old English of “Beowulf” to the modern English of “The Princess Diaries” -- researchers have found that the majority of irregular ...

There are two main classes of verbs in English: strong and weak. 'Strong' is a historical terms that refers to the of verbs in which the past tense is marked by a change in the base vowel and the ...

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Natural languages comprise elaborate systems of rules that enable one speaker to communicate with another 7. These rules serve to simplify the production of language and enable an infinite array of ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades, ...

The words used the most in everyday language are the ones evolving at the slowest rate, say two new studies published in Nature. In one paper, researchers at Harvard University focused on the ...