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Languages and Linguistics

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raccoon

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:50 AM May 2012

Isn't there some law in linguistics that says words tend to evolve toward whatever is [View all]


easier to pronounce?


(yeah, I could google but with search words like these I'd retrieve way too much.)
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