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Even if you never heard this history before, the memory of it persists in the feelings evoked by the words you speak.
On some level, it's a story you already knew because whether we realize it consciously or only subconsciously, our history lives in the words we speak and hear.
Over time, even as fewer literate people knew Latin, the "b" was kept because it marked important, meaningful connections to other related words, like "dubious" and "indubitalbly," which were subsequently borrowed into English from the same Latin root, "dubitare".
Understanding these historical connections not only helped us to spell "doubt," but also to understand the meaning of these more sophisticated words.
There are only two base words in all of English that have the letters "d-o-u-b": one is doubt, and the other is double.
We can build lots of other words on each of these bases, like doubtful and doubtless, or doublet, and redouble, and doubloon.
Historically, before English began to borrow words from French, it already had a word for doubt.
In other words, it's perfect for romantic matching.
When you went to get a shot, the words, "This won't hurt a bit," became a conditioned stimulus when they were paired with pain of the shot, the unconditioned stimulus, which was followed by your conditioned response of getting the heck out of there.
In other words, it says that all motion is impossible.
Well, the only sure way to know is if you see the words, "partially hydrogenated" in the ingredients list.
But there are no hard and fast rules about how small a serving can be, and, that means, you'll have to rely on seeing those key words, partially hydrogenated, because that's how trans fats are made, by partially hydrogenating unsaturated fats.
Imagine a world in which you see numbers and letters as colored even though they're printed in black, in which music or voices trigger a swirl of moving, colored shapes, in which words and names fill your mouth with unusual flavors.
For James, college tastes like sausage, as does message and similar words with the -age ending.
So, while you're typing, typing, typing, maybe really fast, like 60 words a minute, the CPU is fetching and executing billions of instructions a second.
When most people think of dyslexia, they think of seeing letters and words backwards, like seeing "b" as "d" and vice versa, or they might think people with dyslexia see "saw" as "was".
Spelling words phonetically, like s-t-i-k for stick and f-r-e-n-s for friends is also common.
It's common to see one family member who has trouble spelling while another family member has severe difficulty decoding even one syllable words, like catch.
But then, there's that handful of words where things work differently.
Being able to use words meant not just knowing their meaning but what gender they were, too.
Imagine running up against a language with eggru and gat on the one hand, and then with other words, all you have to do is add 's' and get days and stones.
In other words, the brain seems to be tracking low-level, statistical properties of behavior in order to make complex decisions regarding other people's character.
What makes conlangs real languages isn't the number of words they have.
It helps, of course, to have a lot of words.
Dothraki has thousands of words.
Na'vi started with 1,500 words.
But we can see the difference between vocabulary alone and what makes a real language from a look at how Tolkien put together grand old Elvish, a conlang with several thousands words.
After all, you could memorize 5,000 words of Russian and still be barely able to construct a sentence.
That's because you have to know how to put the words together.
The Elvish varieties Tolkien fleshed out the most are Quenya and Sindarin, and their words are different in the same way French and Spanish are.
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