Re: Most common irregular verbs?
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 16:01 |
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--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:
<snip>
>...but certain adjectives,
> particulary some
> borrowed from French, especially in stereotypical
> phrases, appear
> after the noun, in what grammarians sometimes call
> the post-positive
> position: _chaise longue_,
How funny! I'm 60 and for my entire life, up until
today, I have always understood that to be the
adjective "chaise" followed by the noun "longue",
where "chaise" was a particular kind of "longue". To
find that it is the other way around just shakes the
very foundation of my reality!! ;-)
Gosh linguistics is fun!
--gary
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