Word: irregulars
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...perfectly acceptable to talk openly about a decision to have premarital sex or to have multiple sex partners. One-night stands are losing their status as reprehensible. In Harvard dining halls, swapping weird sex tales is hardly an irregular occurrence. As a result of this sexual liberalism becoming the status quo, social conservatism is being reduced to a reaction...
...confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased were from Srebrenica or were victims of the genocide...
...said. Another panelist, Steven W. Lockley, who works in the sleep department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that maintaining a regular sleep schedule is just as important as getting the recommended eight to nine hours a night. “If you constantly have an irregular sleep cycle, you are going to induce jet-lag-like symptoms,” he said. When a student pulls an all-nighter, this cycle is broken and there will be a number of unpleasant consequences like fatigue and drowsiness. “When you’ve been awake...
...genome of a bird is roughly one-third the size of that of humans and about half the size of reptilian genomes, according to Edwards. Until now, no one knew when birds had developed these irregular genomes, he said...
Sticking to his schtick of linguistic analysis, Pinker derided hamantashen for being an irregular plural. Using the Wug Test—a common linguistic experiment—Pinker showed that “latke” to “latkes” is a progression of a regular plural form and therefore “part of our innate universal grammar” while “hamantashen” belongs to a scanty contingency of irregular plurals in English that...