Fizan Ahmed

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English is said to have fewer of the awkward consonant clusters and singsong tonal variations that make other languages so difficult to master. In Cantonese, hae means “yes.” But, with a fractional change of pitch, it also describes the female pudenda.
Fizan Ahmed
Thank goodness for this.
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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