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AE 1197 - Expression: Until the Cows Come Home

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You Can Work Out Until the Cows Come Home

You can work out until the cows come home, but you'll never be as big as your heroes unless you start taking steroids. If I say it on its own, you'll hear the vowel sound, ahh, right? Can, can. When it's in a sentence like this, it actually gets reduced and you'll hear, ugh. Instead of the vowel sound,. ugh, schwa, the schwa vowel sound. You're going to hear, I can complain until the cowscomehome. And you'll also hear the same thing happen with the first syllable of the word complain. So you'll hear: "I can complain and it's like this, can

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