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16: Mailbag of Spedrun
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2020/12/8
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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Our Mailbag is at capacity! Time to get to these questions.
We have
pronouns
and
proverbs
. So why don’t we have
proadjectives
and
proadverbs
?
Is it
on accident
, or
by accident
?
What’s the past tense of
speedrun
?
When has a loanword become just another word?
Why do we say we’re
going ham
?
Why do people pronounce
dynasty
differently?
When we talk about accents, why is so much of the discussion about vowels?
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