About
All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn't always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German -- and books, names and eggs were beek, namen and eggru! [Directed by Lippy, narrated by John McWhorter].
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED-Ed
- Speaker
- John McWhorter
- Year
- 2013
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- History, Languages and linguistics
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
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