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O Brother O Brother by John Niven
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“My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business being in her mouth and getting spat out as quickly as possible like a bad oyster.”
― John Niven, O Brother
tags: foreign-language, language, language-barrier, language-understanding, languages-and-culture, mispronounce, mother, mothers, parents, pronunciation
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