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Plastic-eating worms

Learning English from the News

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The Noise Gobble Gobble

Gobble is a funny word in English because it sounds like the thing it is describing. For example, what noise does a cat make? Meow. What about chickens? Cluck-cluck. To wolf something down means to eat it really quickly. And then we also have guzzle, but that's only really used for drink.

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