TY - ART
TI - Tumblers or Mother is an Irregular Verb
AU - Coverley, M. D.
AB - "Tumblers" is "a tribute to our Mothers and the language we learn primarily from them. Before we ever enter formal education, we know the most arcane of irregular verbs…."<br><br>The piece includes misquotations from <em>The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses</em> by Eugene Field.  Graphics are adaptations of versions by Fern Bisel Peat. The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1930." The work was "inspired by Steven Pinker's <em>Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language</em>.<br><br>The most common verbs in English are: be (39,175 occurrences in a million words of text); have (12,458 occurrences in a million words of text); do (4,367 occurrences in a million words of text); say (2,765 occurrences in a million words of text)." -- Marjorie Luesebrink 
C3 - Web
PY - 2001
LA - English
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/1069/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-03
ER -