Yet it has 58 uses as a noun, 126 as a verb, and 10 as a participial adjective. Its meanings are so various and scattered that it takes the OED 60,000 words-the length of a short novel-to discuss them all. A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English."
( Bill Bryson )
[ The Mother Tongue: English and ]
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