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• The games come to an end
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• How far back in time can you understand English?
• How iambic pentameter really works
• Why people fail at learning languages
• Why the worst idea in linguistics won’t die
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• That apostrophe is a lie
• Will, shall, and other mysteries
• And why you do it anyway
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