Irregular Verbs Quotes

• 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.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Verbs

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

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Top 10, Verbs, Language

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Numbers, Verbs, Language

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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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.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Verbs, Machines

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

  Steven Pinker

  Hate, Believe, Verbs

  "Basic instincts". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotch, Scotland, Verbs

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