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Hello Marina, I was wondering if you could …

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Hello Marina, I was wondering if you could find out why we pronounce the word [both] as if there is and “L” between the “O” and the “T”. Could you find out for me?

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The longest word I have ever come across is “Uninanonomonitity”. I could guess at what this word might mean, but I would probably be wrong?

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I watched the video you did on “laconic”, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned something new. As for the homework you assigned; the opposite of laconic is verbose.
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I read that the term, “O.K.” is from the 8th President of the United Stated, Martin Van Buren. Martin Van Buren grew up in a city called Kinderhook and as Martin became an adult he agined a nickname, “Old Kinderhook”, based on the facts that he had become old and in recognition on where he grew up. When Martin became prrsident, instead of signing his full name to all of the documents, he substituted the first letter in “old” and the first letter in “kinderhook”. So, Martin would sign all the documents “O.K.”, and that is where the term OK came from.
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