https://padlet.com/a2203320440/gf1z03ehwkn1cvck Leave your tip for non-native English speakers of those unwritten rules to help us all! en-us 2021-11-19 01:29:05 UTC 2021-11-20 00:42:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1f1-1f1f7.png a2203320440 https://padlet.com/a2203320440/gf1z03ehwkn1cvck/wish/1900964064 In English linguistics, ablaut reduplication is the repetition of a word with a changed consonant (e.g. nitty-gritty, meollo, in Spanish) or with a changed vowel (hip-hop, flip-flop). If there are three words, this rule tells us to go in the order I-A-O, e.g., ding-dang-dong. If there are only two words, the first must be I and the second A or O, which is why we say ping-pong and tic-tac and not dong-ding or tac-tic.]]> 2021-11-19 01:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/a2203320440/gf1z03ehwkn1cvck/wish/1900964064 a2203320440 https://padlet.com/a2203320440/gf1z03ehwkn1cvck/wish/1900969051 If we had to pick just one feature of English that we wish would go away, it would surely be phrasal verbs, every English learner's worst nightmare. It doesn't make any sense that put up with something means to resist sth or that look after somebody means to worry about somebody, but we have to learn them by heart because native speakers use them more than their normal equivalents.]]> 2021-11-19 01:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a2203320440/gf1z03ehwkn1cvck/wish/1900969051