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AE 1193 - Pete's 2c: I got robbed on New Year's Eve

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How Do You Pronounce Ball?

Far out is a way of showing shock or irritation, anger in that sense. It's very commonly used down under. How do you pronounce ball? So like a round ball that you would play a sport with compared to bowl, which is an implement that you would eat food from. The first one is the long vowel sound or in words like bore and boring. There's more than one vowel sound that happens there. And this is the sound in words like cold or old or fold.

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