Three Years Gone
English puts its little relational words in front of things. On the table, before dinner, after the war, since Tuesday. That is so consistent that “preposition” is the only name most people ever learn for the category, and the more general term, adposition, sounds like something a linguist made up to be difficult. But the language has a handful of words that go on the other side, and the most common one is so ordinary that I doubt anyone notices it is strange. … Read more