Yielding to pressure from readers, we're instituting the new feature you see at the right on the blog template: Ask The Verb.
If it's a question and it's about language, our specialists in language science, Mountain Dew-fueled code monkeys and retired academics swilling beer on the Terrace stand ready to answer it.
Well, here's one: has anyone ever come up with an explanation as to Minnesota's "duck, duck, grey duck" phenomenon? It seems bizarre that something like that would be so universal within Minnesota but stop prettymuch right at the border.
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Well, here's one: has anyone ever come up with an explanation as to Minnesota's "duck, duck, grey duck" phenomenon? It seems bizarre that something like that would be so universal within Minnesota but stop prettymuch right at the border.
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