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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Meaningful sounds and vines

 This government has failed. This government couldn’t run a choko vine up a back fence,” Albanese told reporters, referring to a plant that produces pear-shaped fruit and grows easily in the Australian climate.


Russia, retaliating against Washington, asks 10 US diplomats to leave


The Asterix comics are notorious for obscure puns, but the most obscure may be the one used in Asterix and Cleopatra.



Meaningful sounds (Part 1)

In English, what we think of as the letter “t” is actually a collection of many different sounds – but most of the time we do not notice the difference.