How many Irregular verbs are there in the English language?
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If by irregular verb, you mean all verbs that do not just add '-ed' in both the simple past tense and the past participle, then it's quite a high number.\n\nHowever, the link supplied to '470' irregular verbs is a little misleading.  Included as two verbs here are pairs such as 'build' and 'jerry-build'.  By most measures, these would be regarded as essentially the same verb.  So, some are counted twice or more on this list.\n\nFurther, it is not stated whether this is US or UK English.  'Dive' and 'fit' are regular verbs in Britain, but irregular in the US, for example.\n\nSo, my guess is that the number is probably around 300 - give or take.  (And those last two are both irregular!)
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But why stop at 10?  Supposedly over 5% of English words are derived from Greek.\n\nBut here are some examples:\n* mania\n* program\n* panic\n* problem\n* angel\n* utopia\n* tuna\n* idea\n* hero\nand of course * alphabet
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An irregular verb.  One which doesn't form the past tense with "ed."  Such as dig/dug/dug.
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Here's 13 that I know of:\n\nAce of clubs\ndeuce of clubs\nthree of clubs\nfour of clubs\nfive of clubs\nsix of clubs\nseven of clubs\neight of clubs\nnine of clubs\nten of clubs\njack of clubs\nqueen of clubs\nking of clubs
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The English language is very complex, and anybody who attempts to learn it is anything but lazy. Don't emphasize what you don't know yet.  Every English speaking person has idioms, words, and grammar that they have yet to master. It is the nature of the beast. This language has enough intricacies to keep you learning for a lifetime.
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Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:\n\naffect-hungry\nfire-angry\nMacLoingry\nSeagry\naggry\nGagry\nmad-angry\nself-angry\nAgry\ngirl-hungry\nmad-hungry\nselfe-angry\nahungry\ngonagry\nmagry\nsensation-hungry\nair-hungry\ngrymalgry\nsex-angry\nanhungry\nhaegry\nman-hungry\nsex-hungry\nBadagry\nhalf-angry\nmanagry\nShchigry\nBallingry\nhangry\nmannagry\nshiggry\nbegry\nheart-angry\nMargry\nShtchigry\nbewgry\nheart-hungry\nmaugry\nsight-hungry\nboroughmongry\nhigry\npigry\nmawgry\nskugry\n\n\nDammit there's a lot more...
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Hi there,\n\nWe do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: \n\notorhinolaryngological (22 letters), \nimmunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), \npsychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), \nthyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), \npneumoencephalographically (26 letters), \nradioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), \npsychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) \nhepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), \nspectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), \npseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). \n\nMost of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease  pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcanoconiosis (45 letters). \n(no space is there between the letters. I have added a space because here it is being showed as ...)\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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I know of at least 11 that are commonly accepted/used, esp. as interjections:\nbrr, bzz, grr, hmm, mm-hmm, nth, pfft, psst,shh, tsk/ tsktsk(s), zzz\n\nAccording to your rules "cwm" and "crwth" would be permissible.\nBut, in fact, "w" IS a vowel in these cases (the first word is pronounced "coom"!), just as it is in English words with the diphthong "ow" (a variant of "ou").\n\n(I also omit any proper names -- like "Ng"--  no telling where you might go with that... and I'm not sure you should count them as "English" anyway.)\n\n-------------------\n\nFor an entertaining list of many "consonant-only words" (mostly made up) which have actually appeared in literature check out \nThe Dictionary of Consonant-Only Words by Craig Conly -http://www.oneletterwords.com/consonant/index.html\n(He lists 105 words under "T" alone! )
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The vocabulary of the avarage adult is usually estimated to be between 30,000-60,000 words.\n\nSome say it might be as much as 100,000 and Oxford English Dictionary says it might be as low as 10-12,000. \n\nReally, the answer depends on which study you choose to follow.
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The F word is Anglo Saxon.  Most others are corruptions of body parts.  My favourite is my old grandad's: 'Bad cess to you'.   It took me a long time to figure it out, but the cess is as in cesspit.
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They can be used as both nouns and verbs.
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There is no verb form. You have to use it with the verb to be. To be pedantic. Or to be a pedant
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Wikipedia has an explanation and an entire list:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_irregular_adjectives\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlative
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Irregular - went\nPast Participle - gone
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All English verbs can take -ing - as this is how they form particples.  What you mean - I assume - is that some verbs rarely if ever get used in a continuous tense.\n\nThese verbs are often called 'stative verbs'.  'Know' is a prime example and I cannot think of situtaion where a continuous form would be appropriate.  (However, the participle is often used.  Example:  'Knowing Fred's appetite, I expected to find him near the fridge.')\n\n'See' is slightly different.  'I have been seeing quite a lot of David recently' - is quite acceptable usage.\n\n'Hear' is also OK.  I work in an international school where students have to speak English during the day.  'I'm not hearing enough English!'  Is often a playful warning teachers give their students.\n\nWhere the meaning is either 'right now' or 'recently more than usual', the present continuous for such verbs is fine.\n\n'Remember' is also fine.  A patient in hospital might say that he originally had no memory of his accident.  'However, in the last few days I've been remembering more and more details.'\n\nSo, the assumption on which your question is based is not wholly true.
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no. "ain't" is not a real word in the English vocabulary. But it is still used. Different places make up and use new words, but they are not proper English.
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A few came up on my word finding software which turned out to be archaic or obsolete but acceptable for Scrabble!\n\nThere will be others such as comparative or superlative adjective forms or verb endings (-ed, -ing etc) which I have not listed in every possible case.\n\naw; ought abought bought fought mought nought rought sought brought thought wrought\n\nuff; anough chough clough enough enrough grough rough roughy roughie roughen shough slough(1) sloughy sough tough toughen tougher toughest toughly toughy toughie unrough\n\now; bough froughy plough drought dought\n\noff; cough coughed trough\n\noh: dough doughy though\n\nuh or oh; borough thorough\n\noo; slough (2) through throughout \n\nup; hiccough\n\nok or okh; lough hough brough