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“Formal Speech”: Solution

Posted in Language, Puzzles by Greg Ross on November 29th, 2009

Solution to Formal Speech:

Asimov was thinking of polish, but there are many others: august, herb, job, lima, natal, nice, rainier, reading, rodeo, tangier

… and the delightful Mousehole, a village in Cornwall whose name is pronounced mau-zill … and which presumably contains mouseholes.

Thanks to Wade and Dominic for the long list.