The state of Idaho has a large community of Basque speakers. Their native tongue is what’s known as a language isolate, meaning one that is not historically connected to those around it. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
Chris from Columbus, Wisconsin, wonders why English says bought rather than the regularized buyed for the past tense of buy. The form belongs to a small set of high-frequency verbs whose older patterns survived while many other verbs shifted toward...