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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Importance of Vowel Sounds in English

Alex O'Brien went to a very hippie school for English. He says he was able to BS his way through class by doing art projects instead of reading books. The language has so many different vowel sounds that it's like cheating at Scrabble, he says. "You just get used to all these dumb little rules"

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