Lola in Madison, Wisconsin, just bought a 1921 house that has a separate room beside the kitchen for a dishwashing sink and cupboards. She and her partner are unsure what to call it. The sink room, maybe? Yes! The name reflects the history of how...
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...