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Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

Zebranky

Re: Luckily

I prefer the quote from James Nicoll relating to the English Language 'adopting new words...

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

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