Re: Speaking without a foreign accent

From: Rolleston (rolleston_at_onetel.net.uk)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:32:36 +0000

Mxsmanic wrote:
> In other words, it's hard to think of two meaningful and plausible
> sentences that differ only in the presence of "ladder" in place of
> "latter."

Do you see a ladder and a bucket of paint? Fetch the la..er.

R.

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