#Forgotten (or #Forgetted? #Forgat?) Words @OkayToBeSmart @NGramGoogle #Forget #Forgot #Forgets #Forgetting #Forgetful #Unforgettable #Forgetfully #Unforgettably

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'That word' (below-hyperlinked to The Library of Words) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word |Forget| is built on ancient words that mean "Away, |Amiss, |Opposite + to |Grasp" (to un-Get (Lose) from the |Mind, Lose your Grip on something or Lose Care for something).



NOTES (Doors to Other Rooms adjacent to this Nave):
Irregular Verbs (rather than 'ending in "s" for present-tens & "ed" for past-,' they're spelled differently ... a Zipf Exception) 
a Concordance (Ancient form of Google ... Book that Lists every Instance of every Word in another Written Work---from "The" to "Hallux (Anatomical Name for the Big Toe)") 
Zipf's Law:  the 10th most frequently used word is ten times more common than the 100th most used 
the Ablaut, a system in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) in which verb-tense was changed by Vowel-Sound; Regular verbs arose from PIE's descendant Proto-Germanic 
---he talks about 'Natural Selection among words in language,' and it reminds me how a lecturer said most languages are Creoles (Languages that 'Evolved' throug adaptation of Local Languages to the Tongue of Foreign-Native Speakers (giving us e.g. new English words from Slaves who adapted them from their Masters' Words in their Foreign Understanding) 
Google "Ngram" (Engram?) Search plots the frequency of Strings of words










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