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       xkcd - A Webcomic - Intervocalic Fortition (1697)
        
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       These pranks happen all the time. English doesn't allow
       one-syllable words to end in a lax vowel, so writers on The
       Simpsons decided to mess with future linguists by introducing the
       word "meh."
        
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