👂Advanced English Listening Practice (with Luke / Luke's English Podcast)
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What Are Flip-Flop Words?
In terms of childish words you also have what I like to call flip-flop words so these are the technical term is reduplicative reduplicative words yeah apparently that was kind of new to me as well. These are words that have like the same like set of letters same sounds repeated so like this is why it's quite childish because you've got like mama and we were talking about ways you'd say dinner would be Dindins. So when you have these repeated sounds this is reduplication or reduplication yes as I call it flip-Flop words.
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