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"Today's regular and irregular verbs have their roots in old border disputes between the word module and the rule module. Many irregulars can be traced back over 5,500 years, to a mysterious tribe that came to dominate Europe, western Asia, and northen India. Their language, Indo-European, is the ancestor of Hindi, Persian, Russian, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, and English. It had rules that replaced vowels: the past of senkw- (sink) was sonkw-.
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