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

topic: Memories, Years, Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Computation

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

topic: Top 10, Verbs, Language, Irregular Verbs

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

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

topic: Numbers, Verbs, Language, Irregular Verbs

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

topic: Responsibility, Machines, Bills, Irregular Verbs

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

- Steven Pinker

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

topic: Hate, Believe, Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Hate Mail

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

topic: Scotch, Scotland, Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Scots