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Old 01-31-2025, 01:34 AM   #478
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
When the first word ends in a vowel sound and the following one starts with a vowel sound, it just doesn't sound good to me.
It isn't just you. Poets all over the English-speaking world have been trying to avoid those combinations for hundreds of years. (In the Romance languages, they just slur the two vowels together into one syllable.)

I agree, ‘Utah Bandits’ rolls off the tongue a lot better than ‘Utah Outlaws’.
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