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		dreamfactory2 on May 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder According to Pinker, every language falls into one of these two categories (meaning conveyed by word order or word case).

platz on May 6, 2014 [–]

Although there are lots of examples where people switched the word order. It might not be historicaly accurate, but the example I remember being told is that an 'ear wig' was so named because it went from one's wig to one's ear.

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