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i did a version of the wug test as part of a science project in high school. i went to an elementary school and did a wug test. none of the kids answered correctly but my favorite response to "this is a wug. now there are two of them. there are two ______" was "frens".

I immediate said that he "glung." I am so surprised that wasn't the most common response! - - 67-year-old man

Years ago we had both a linguistics grad student and a very bright labrador retriever in the same household. I taught the lab to fetch or locate objects by name - if she knew the name, she'd select the corresponding thing (fantastic for finding your keys or the remote). So, we did some tests. "Toy" was a category, and all of the dogs stuff was a toy. Within the category of toy, were subcategories of ball, bone, rope, etc. When presented with a pile of stuff she'd never seen before and asked to fetch a ball, bone, or rope, she'd often pick things out by sight - but also would sometimes do tests. If the thing rolled when she pushed it with her nose, that was a ball. If it was nice to chew on that was a bone. Stick seemed to be a subset of bone, but she would pick it last out of various chewable things (with antlers actually being prefered over actual bones). Doing (ethical) science on your pets is fun!

I remember this being asked of us as kids in grade 1 (for fun in the classroom, not as an official study or anything), and my very honest response was, "I don't know, because I don't know that word. Could you teach me?" I'm sure that growing up with more than one language in the home must have impacted my view on the matter, and was probably an early indicator of both my perfectionistic tendencies and my anxiety 😅

I remember my daughter in her early years used to use irregular past tenses quite well saying things like 'I saw', 'I thought'. We thought she was a genius. Later on she started getting them wrong and saying 'I seed' and 'I thinked'. It's like as soon as she worked out the rule she started applying it to everything rather than imitating what she heard. My son was a great one for making up words and phrases. He called helicopters 'copterplanes' or sometimes 'aerocopters' (we say 'aeroplane' in the UK rather than 'airplane'), trampolines were 'bouncealines' and he invented the word 'lasterday' for 'the other day, recently'.

it took me the entire video to realize people's basis for changing gling->glang is sing->sang. (maybe others? that is the only example i can think of for some reason) My immediate answer was "he glung" because my mind went to fling->flung. Saying "he glang" feels completely unnatural to me

I distinctly remember being given a similar test in preschool. When asked what a grocer does, I said "He grosses people out."

"It's called thanksgiving because you eat lots of turkey" is literally (figuratively) the cutest thing I've ever heard.

I treated "gling" like any other "foreign" word brought into English recently and made the past tense "glinged."

Nah, he glinged. I was quite surprised when you said "glang" was in the majority. New words normally get the regular form.

My son was somewhere between 2 and 3 when I caught him, in deep focused concentration, disassembing my little battery powered nose hair trimmer. He'd gotten it pretty well destroyed but had a few potentially functional pieces still in hand and he was so intently focused upon his work prying pieces apart that he failed to notice my approach. "Ah, what cha doing there, champ?" I queried. Instantly, his little body convulsed in a spasm of guit. The last pieces fell into the pile strewn about his little feet as the reaction reached his hands and he blurted out in his perfectly fluent toddler grammar, "i didn't didded it!" I had to laugh as i picked him up and contradicted him, saying, mirroring his language, " You did, too, didded it! I caught you red handed" Just one of many fond memories of raising that rascal.

In the UK they had formal assessments based on ‘alien words’ (I don’t know if they still do). At my daughters school a bunch of parents were irate because their children came home upset that they had failed a test for which there was technically no correct answers.

I'm an English speaker, my children have been raised with Korean as their first language. I remember my son, at about age 2-3 was starting to learn a few English words, and he developed a rule, that English nouns have 's' on the end. So when he tried to communicate with my mum, he would say English nouns he knew, and also convert Korean nouns to English by adding 's' (eg. 사과 ('sa-gwa' apple) becomes 사과s ('sa-gwas')

My son didn't really start talking until he was about 18 months old, now he just turned 5 and constantly asks for the reason things are named the way they are (e.g. "Why is it called a 'house'?"). It seems like he really enjoys thinking about words. My daughter on the other hand started talking before she was 1 and was spontaneously telling stories about made up characters by the time she was 2, yet she has never outwardly shown any interest is words or language. It's really interesting watching them develop in such different ways.

When I first started teaching little kids, it threw me off that my etymological explanations didn’t stick, but they preferred explanations like “because a quarter note is filled in black.” Very insightful!

I keep adding to a list of abreviated words. Im mildly obsessed with it. Many of the words can only be like 1 thing especially in context. caush - caution obvi - obvious deets - Details Cazz - Casual presh - pressure Sitch - Situation Fam - Family Mome - moment totes - totally

My problem with Gleason is her sending emails to linguistics students threatening legal action if they didn't stop using the wugs. Also the wug being a linguistic stimulus raises weird questions when it comes to copyright as science needs to be replicatable.

I had two observations of a related phenom over the years. In the '70s, I dabbled in the study of Japanese. Upon learning the word for the noun "sock" (k'tsush'ta), I said to my mentor "Oh, I see. Undershoe". After all, k[u]tsu = shoe and sh[i]ta = under. It was quite clear to me upon hearing the word, but caught my native-speaking mentor off-guard. He had never parsed the sound into components, and was amazed that in all of his years, he hadn't noticed this simple reality. He just heard the word and recognized its identity as a knitted foot garment. (I found this doubly fascinating, since the written form was probably not written in their phonetic alphabet, but in a pair of Chinese characters that would make the compound obvious.) This spring (2023), while speaking to a francophone, I said that I like the way her language developed words with a French feeling, so rather than forming "computeur" for our "computer", as do the other romance languages, they created "ordenateur", or "device that puts things in order." Again, the derivation was instantly clear to me, but it came as a revelation to her -- for whom it was an already-complete sound that needed no explanation or further examination. (That's the task for the non-speaker who's grappling with sounds to make sense of them.) The amazing form of mental telepathy we call language is a device that works pretty well, but is only a kind of messenger RNA whose task is to replicate the thought in one person's mind in that of another. It's not the thing itself, just a good-enough-for-now approximator. (Gee! I knew how to form "approximator", and everyone knows what it means.) But, we're so facile with it, that we forget that that's all it is. One of my favorite sticking points comes when I ask someone "Does your use of the word 'should' represent a statistical probability or a moral imperative?" (I know this to be true in both Romance and Germanic. I don't know about the other Indo-Euros.) As before, I'm always amazed that people don't generally notice the sloppiness of this particular word. Language gets its job done, but we only "get by", never noticing how dicey it really is. Anything beyond "Please pass the salt" or "Fill 'er up, regular" can -- and often is -- interpreted by the listener differently from the intention of the speaker. It's a miracle we get anything done at all!

Gon' need that trunc vid, bro. Any topic presented by an expert - especially someone whose presentation styles are this great - is welcome! Subscribed.

Felt very validated that “glang” was the most common. Very interesting video, I will check out more from you

me, a 22 year old adult feels PERSONALLY attacked because i shouted out to my computer screen, "GLINGED!! HE GLINGED!!!!!" only to find out IM in the minority yeah right pffffft

As a non-native speaker, I just used the -ed version for all the verbs. That is something new learners do a lot when they aren't sure about the past tense of a verb, just guessing that it's a regular verb is much easier than guessing what random form of irregularity is the right one 😂

when i was learning to write (maybe 1st grade?) i would purposefully write words with no spaces between them because my understanding of compound words was that sometimes adults would write two related words without a space to be fancy. i kinda wish i was able to study my logic from back then. how related did two words have to be for me to decide they could be a compound word?

My family was friends with a family from the Netherlands. Their eldest sone was about the same age as my sister and I and when he was 11 (I was 12 and my sister was 10) they sent the boy to stay with us over the summer. The catch was, he did not speak English, and none of us spoke Dutch. I remember this summer as just a really good time. But looking back, I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been for him. Here he is, an unaccompanied minor flying thousands of miles (or kilometers) from home to meet people he had never seen before and none there spoke Dutch. Any worries he might have had were quickly dispelled. Very quickly us kids fell in together and despite the language barrier we were all able to make ourselves understood. Even more amazing is the speed with which he learned English. Within the first week he could get the general idea of what was being said to him, and he could speak enough English to give us a general idea of what he wanted to say. In 2 weeks he was becoming proficient in English. And by the end of the summer he was speaking American English with almost no accent. This was a bit of a problem for him once school started again. Kids in his grade would begin English lessons. He was ready to skip the basics and head right into the advanced English classes. After he was speaking almost perfect English. He was sent home from his first English class with a not stating he had repandly tried to correct the teacher with this horrible version of American English, but she (the teacher) was determined to teach the students proper, British English. There were some mistakes and miscommunications. We took him camping in Oregon, to a camp ground I had been going to for many years. I taught him to fish, and the fishing was fantastic. In no time we had caught our limit, then I told him we had to clean the fish. He was a bit confused because we had just taken the fish out of the nice clean river and we were taking them to a pond full of salamanders to "clean" them. It made no sense to him, but he figured things would be made clear as I showed him how to clean the fish. I showed him how to make sure the fish was dead (it would be horrible to clean the fish alive) then I used my knife to slit the belly of the fish open. I heard a rustling and looked. He was gone. He told me later that he had never expected my to cut the fish open and got sick even before he started running away. I don't know if this was his first encounter with a seemingly familiar word that had a very different meaning in that context, but it was certainly the most memorable. I'm not sure he ever did clean any fish, but he loved catching them and eating them.

Berko didn't renew copyright, nor did the journal in which she published her designs. That was required to keep it at that time. They are public domain. Her C&D letters have no legal foundation. But they still have a *moral* foundation. Asking nicely first, in both directions, would have been the right thing to do.

For English I'd say "glang", but for my native Dutch if asked the same question, I would say "glong"/"geglongen".

God I love these videos. Your passion is always apparent, and I enjoy your delivery.

"Now there are two of them. There are two ....." Best answer: "U+238E Hysteresis Symbols"

The Ka-choo thing is so adorable, and literally made me chuckle even before you said one of the adults said the same thing.

I asked ChatGPT the following: Me: I have a blurg. Now I have two. I have two _______ (fill in the blank). ChatPT: blurgs. Me: John is great at veezing. He does it every day. Yesterday he _____ (fill in the blank). ChatGPT: veezed. Me: Bob and Jack like to verp each other. When they are ______, they can't be stopped (fill in the blank). ChatGPT: verping And yes, I know that ChatGPT (and systems like it) work by extracting patterns in language. It's fascinating to see how children react to these questions, but to me, it's even more fascinating that ChatGPT is doing something similar... maybe. And now, please excuse me because my husband and I are going to verp each other until we pass out.

My daughter started to speak early in her career as a human. I was fascinated at her confusion with indexical pronouns. (Swapping “you” and “me”). I suspect other children have the same problem with understanding, but she spoke early enough that we could hear her sort it out.

i assume you know, but i'll point out that "rizz" is not a nonsense word anymore, having gained meaning as a shortening of "charisma" in a romantic/sexual sense (~synonymous & analogous to "game")

I'm of the firm opinion that in German it is ein Wug, zwei Wüge. And a small Wug would be a Wügchen (a Wügle in southern Germany).

so, my first thought was "glung" then went to "glinged", for a mini one I guessed "wugy" and for a wug house, I guessed "den" because, I really should have guessed nest but somehow I imagined it they built a structure we'd call it a den like wolves live in. Fun to note in my other language if we could pronounce wug, would be "ugwug" said like "oog-wug" because the root is copied and w gets reduced to a vowel, usually animals don't need plurals though.

Not you Rick-Rolling me! I was Rick-Rolled. 🤣

I'm a native English speaker. When asked "what did he do yesterday?", I replied with "gling". I never thought to use any tense in response. What does that say about me? XD

I chose "glinged" because it sounded like a noise word like "ping" and "ding". Wug, wugs, wugget (like nugget), wughouse (like doghouse) though a large group one would be a wuggery (rookery, cattery) Seeing people's explanations is often more revealing than assumptions

What would you call a house that a wug lives in? - - A wugwam.

I absolutely said he "glung". Glad to see I'm not the only one, but I'm surprised to see I'm so outnumbered!

A wug - wiggen. Diminutive: a wigling - wiglings. Dwelling: A "wughom/wuggom(wug-home)" or perhaps "wugro(o)m" as a reanalysising of "wuggom/wughom" as supposed to be from "wug-room". Edit: Adding "gling - glought" as well for funsies.

Since learning french I think of pomegranates as apple grenades Turns out etymologically grenades are named after pomegranates so it's the other way around

Isn't this just why young kids say brang instead of brought. I would have thought this wouldn't be that surprising a finding. Edit: I love those private meanings of words.

"...I had the impression it was just that they _didn't like being asked to stop."_ People who ought to know better becoming weirdly defensive of their demonstrably problematic behavior purely because someone had the utter _gall_ to ask them to stop? Surely not.

I think some mass produxed ceramic wugs in the German garden gnome style would be excellent merch, by the way. I got a friend a heavily ironic housewarming gift of a garden gnome who was drinking heavily, smoking a fat spliff and mooning everyone. But an unexpected wug in the bushes would be far cooler

He "glung" or "glinged"

I remember being presented with a similar process at a "language day" in 1968 when I was a high school junior. We were introduced to "rules" of a made-up language and had to apply them to extrapolated situations. A perhaps interesting tangential factoid: in English, we have know/knew, blow/blew, grow/grew - but snow/snowed. In the Suffolk dialect the past tense of snow is snew (likewise, the past tense of show is shew)

thanksgiving is called thanksgiving cause in the 1800s the US wanted to increase the number of national holidays that promoted unity for families in the US, so a story was created about 2 cultures (the natives and the pilgrims) coming together to celebrate and give thanks for both their similarities, and differences. 40 some years later, a turkey feast was created by an ad campaign, and the rest is history.

As a UK native English speaker, I said glinged. I was taught that -ang and -t past tense verbs were irregulars only used for some specific words that originally were -ing but evolved over time beyond their original incorporation from other languages.

"Gling" sounds like a strong verb so I'd suspect either "glang" or "glung" by analogy with "sing" or "cling". ("Bring" is its own odd accident of history and I wouldn't expect anything else to resemble it. And children tend not to either, as evidenced by the extremely common "brung" form that anyone who spends time around young children will have repeatedly encountered.) Of course strong verbs in English tend to become weak verbs over time, and that goes double for obscure verbs, so it's probably more reasonable to expect that any verb you've never encountered before is probably a weak verb. With fewer than 200 strong verbs remaining in English, one is unlikely to encounter new ones past the age of five or six, so older children (and adults) probably ought to assume an unknown verb is weak, so it should be "glinged" like "dinged" (although it seems like there are barely any weak verbs that end in "-ing", now that I think about it.)

Glinged felt natural to me. Not totally sure why, but maybe this could be the reason: evren though many "ing" become "ang", there's also "dinged" and "sung". Maybe since there are real "_ing"verbs that can be conjugated differently, I was able to feel comfortable using the standard "-ed" ending. Also, I think the pronunciation of "glang" feels awkward/uncomfortable compared to "gling"

Everyone around me keeps insisting on "Meese," and I fear the joke will eventually stick as normalcy.

13:41 that is true in German too. A well known example is that "Schweineschnitzel" means a schnitzel made of pork and "Rindschnitzel" means a schnitzel made of beef, but "Jägerschnitzel" means a hunter's style schnitzel and "Kinderschnitzel" means a schnitzel intended for children (i.E. a smaller schnitzel).

I studied linguistics in Germany, have a master's degree in it, have been obsessed with linguistics since my youth, but never encountered a wug until I joined r/linguistics, where they use the bird as a mascot. Your video was the first time I ever heard of the study or of the bird being used as a mascot for linguistics (it seems to be non-existant in Germany).

The biggest problem we've been having is "What is the plural of caboose?" Both "cabooses" and "cabeese" have appeared in our club. The problem running it back to see which construction to use is we find it's linguistically already plural (from kaboodle; indefinite plural of cooking pot).

As an UG I recorded interviews with my cousin’s kids, aged 3 and 6. The aim was to look at their “sensitivity to the productivity of options in the target language” and whether they used the suffix “er” to create novel nouns for the ‘people who do X’ (as in teacher, driver, singer, runner and so on). 15 years later and “Pick nose boy” still makes me smile.

The word in the paper I find most interesting is the one they called “*quirks”. As far as I can tell, that was already a word with approximately its modern meaning (as was the adjective they called “*quirky”) before the test; they just had not heard of it.

I want to say glung rather than glang. To my ear, a glang is the noun form - either the person who glung, or the tool used to gling. Edit: a strong second contender for me would be glōng (long/stressed o): think dive/dove, smite/smote, drive/drove, etc)

Love this video! I remember at the time there was some controversy that Gleeson wasn't going to let *anyone* use the wug, even under fair use. I think that's what had people annoyed. But it was a few years ago and I can't remember the exact arguments from the other side.

Immediately I thought: glang, wugs, gutches, spowed, ricked, wugling or wuglet, wug den or burrow, idk they look like burrowing owls to me I immediately assumed they lived underground for whatever reason.

I came here from another of your videos that I was surprised to find interesting. You make linguistics sound fun!

I'm surprised that the majority said ‘glang’. I did think of that, but my answer is ‘glinged'. (Sorry, I didn't make a comment before watching another minute.) Irregular words may come in patterns, but they're still irregular. Rarely used irregular words often become regular over time (and they don't even have to be that rare, like how ‘holp’ became ‘helped’). New words, if they're not built on old roots, naturally start out regular. This is a new word, certainly to me and probably to the language since I have an extensive vocabulary (and if not new then quite rare), so the past tense is by default ‘glinged’. ETA: I checked with my 7-year-old, and she said ‘wugs’ and ‘glinged’.

Weirdly the past tense I came up with immediately was "glung."

As a kid, I remember pronouncing "platform" as "flatform" because "it's flat on top." Was very confused when I learned the actual pronunciation

John McWhorter said something to the effect of - if your language and grammar are that complex, your language is broken. I think he was referring to all the whom vs who.

He did a glinging (Slavic native)

I said glang, but I was tempted to go with glung. I guess that would be the past participle though. Did not see wugatorium coming. And I think a small wug is a wuglet.

There are no words. “Ceci n'est pas un wug.” ❤ How I wish I could talk to you about the things that aren’t. P.S. I don’t understand French.

Going into this, I thought there was going to be something wrong with the study itself. But no... just like many of the modern world's problems, it's a bloody copyright dispute.

I feel like I was the only one who thought "glung" To be fair, English isn't my first language, but I'd like to think I know it at a level close to a native speaker

At some point in elementary school, we learned about compound words, and were asked to give examples. As expected, the class came up with blackboard, playground, etc. But one kid came up with napkin, you know, nap plus kin. The teacher explained that napkin didn't really count. What about pumpkin? She replied, "That's enough, Mr. Page." Anyway, as far as glinging, I first thought of glinged. After a few minutes, I thought glought might be an option, like the verb bring. So, happy ricking!

This video has become one of my favorites on RU-vid! Though I'm sad there are no more wug keychains being sold 😭

Tested handkerchief by pretending to sneeze and going "kerchief!" Can confirm it is a sneeze sound.

As an amateur linguist, I'd of course heard of the wug. But I didn't know about the whole scene around wuggim. Fascinating stuff, subscribed. cheers from cloudy Vienna, Scott

The wug t-shirt should have been in French "ceci n'est pas un Wug"

When I asked AI "If I kright today, and I also did that yesterday, what did i do yesterday?" it replied "It seems like “kright” isn’t a commonly recognized word in English. If you meant “knight,” then it would mean you were honored or bestowed with the title of knight yesterday and today. However, if “kright” is a term specific to a certain context or dialect, could you provide more details? That way, I can give you a more accurate answer."

My immediate response was "That verb sounds like it would be irregular in English - I would have to look up the tenses."

I went with "glung", fascinatingly my husband reflexively said "glaught"

I haven't watched yet ... BUT, as the owner of a cattle dog mix known as a/the Wug _(etymology: "Pantera" became "Tella" through a comedy of errors -> "Tella-Wella-Woo" -> became abbreviated as "The Woo" -> then she rolled in poop once and became the "Woo-Nugget" as a poo-nugget joke (plus she is also nuggetishly-shaped) -> this became portmanteaued into "Wugget" -> now she is called "Wug", "The Wug", "Wuggetiest Bug", along with other titles such as "Hugget", "Snugget", "Tugget", etc)_ ... As owner of this dog, I just want to clear up this fact: Although there is (sadly) only one Wug, there can be no such thing as "too many" Wug, and if you could all have a Wug, I assure you, you most certainly would want one, because she is perfect and wuggety and snug-as-a-wugget-in-a-rugget and the best Wug that ever wugged, and if she could give all of you wuggety snugs, she would. That is all.

>deeply educational >entertaining >dunks on ideological hypocrisy >WUG 10/10 man I just found out who exists.

I answered all the question for "wug" by pronouncing the r's as was. What do you call a tiny wug? A weawwy wittow wug. What do you call a home a hug lives in? A wittow wittow house.

Glinged? Maybe glanged, but I suspect the first is better. It really depends on what language the word came from since you're making it up, any past tense will work. Edit: Glang? Really? Why would we assume it's an irregular verb when most verbs are regular? Also, the plural of "Moose" is "Meese". And, yes, I realize I'm technically wrong about this. But good luck trying to stop me from saying "Meese".

My mind instantly jumped to “glunged” for some reason. Then “glang”.

for the question "what was he DOING yesterday?" i answered glinging if it had been "what did he do yesterday" i would have said glinged i have to note tho my hearing isnt 100%

This is going to the most pedantic and nitpicky comment, but an Arabic child probably wouldn't speak about one ‘wug’ and two ‘awayig’, but about one ‘wug’, two ‘wugayn’, and three ‘awayig’, owing to the dual :) Overall very interesting video!

First thought was imperfective aspect. He 'was glinging'? Wonder how often people default to that

Yesterday he glinged. This is a normal comment under the circumstances.

My son's primary school teacher said 'hamburger' is a compound word made of 'ham' and 'burger'.

Actually the explanation of airplane seems to be mostly correct: the etymology really seems to be, a plane (flat) surface interacting with the air. Which is true as early wings were flat and only created lift via angle of attack (you can easily see this by looking at photos of biplanes).

Native English speaker here and I immediately thought the past tense of "gling" was "glung". I love linguistics and have also studied several foregin languages to a low/intermediate level of proficiency. No idea where the heck "glung" came from. Oh, and I'd totes watch a video on adorbs truncs!

I did intuitively figure that for handkerchief, that the “hand-” part of the word would be a directly related to its hand-sized portability. It’s nice to occasionally get the etymology of a common yet random word I know the “Ka-choo” part of any explanation is not an actual explanation of its etymology, but it has been a very helpful memetic for remembering what that middle consonant is: “In a Hand, and a ka-choo from the Chief officer. Hand, Ka, Chief. Handkerchief.”

As a native (Swiss) German speaker one thing about English phonology puzzles me: What made "Knut" becoming a two syllable word in English? As 'knight' and ' knife' show, this clearly wasn't always the case. (words of Norse origin, right?) English also famously isn't really averse to awkward consonant clusters (Months, anyone?) So what development made the 'kn' phoneme illegal?

I thought “glinged”. I can see why a lot of people would think sing->sang therefore gling->glang. I’m surprised no one thought bring->brought therefore gling->glought.

As a German, I would have said glinged, and a little wug is a wugling, obviously. 😊 The German "glove" = "Handschuh" (hand shoe) comes to mind, which even makes grown-ups think of a soft, knitted glove and not of a hard, leathery object, despite saying the word "shoe" out loud and being aware of the origin when asked for it. 🧤🖖🥾 In this context, I like the Japanese word "kinoko" (mushroom), and I would love it so much if its kanji form, instead of 菌 or 茸 (mushroom), was 木の子 (child of the tree), which would have fewer strokes and include the etymological origin as well as biological knowledge. 🌳🍄 And there are the words for Sunday and Monday in many Slavic languages. As a second language learner of Slavic languages, I did not notice that, for instance, our Upper Sorbian "njedźěła" (Sunday) comes from nje- (not) dźěła (work) and that "Monday" - "póndźela" is the day po (after) n(je-) (not) dźěła (work), despite knowing all these words. I did not even notice it when recently learning Ukrainian - not until my Ukrainian teacher pointed it out to me. When I taught my 2-year old brother the word "Buch" (German for book) when I was reading one, he immediately pointed at a pile of books, saying "Buchen", which could have been a plural form of Buch, but it means "beeches" (Buche -> Buchen = beech -> beeches), and I told him that and taught him the correct plural (Buch -> Bücher = book -> books) and he immediately got it and still does it correctly today, 30 years later. 😊

Maybe this is obvious, but I think the gling becoming glang in the past tense might have something to do with children being familiar with the verb sing becoming sang. The verbs rhyme.

In Russian little wug would be called wugyonok (more like wug'onok where g' means palatalised g). -onok is often added to the word if we are talking about an offspring of an animal. "Лиса" - fox, "лисёнок" - little fox

Apparently, children from Turkey are able to learn to speak Turkish more swiftly than speakers of Indo-European. languages such as German, English , French and other related languages , because Turkish grammar is so incredibly regular and free form exceptions .

My immediate response having only payed minimal attention up to that point was "He was glinging." odd

I hope we can agree that people who enjoy watching linguists defend their intellectual property should be called Wug Watchers 😁 Also, this is my first time watching a languagejones video, and I'm happy that the algorithm has blessed me upon this day. This was fun and well-researched. I love to see content that actively references and promotes the source material. I'm looking forward to watching other stuff from this channel.

I'm a native speaker, but my immediate response was "he glung." And then I thought "glinged" as a possible second choice. Hearing "glang" Feels so wrong. I would have never thought that. It just does not feel right.

I'm in the weird group with those two kids that said glanged.