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EverHopeful

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12. I'm impressed.

Reply to Harker (Reply #11)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 03:28 PM

Mar 2025

Was given a children's book about Egypt and it took far longer than it probably should have to learn how that was pronounced.

For quite a few years, only in my head, never out loud, I pronounced it more like sarco fage us.

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