http://blog.oup.com/2012/01/beginning/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/01/beginning/#comment-246122 John Cowan Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:43:19 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=20486#comment-246122 What occurs to me is that without an "inseparable" prefix, there would have been intolerable confusion between the preterite of <i>gin</i> and the preterite of <i>go</i>, or perhaps rather <i>gang</i> 'go' (as you know, it is a question whether or how those are related). What occurs to me is that without an “inseparable” prefix, there would have been intolerable confusion between the preterite of gin and the preterite of go, or perhaps rather gang ‘go’ (as you know, it is a question whether or how those are related).

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