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  • Gee, that's hard and soft!
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  • Tunie: Mark Rothko Song
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  • It's short for "Elizabeth"
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  • Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbreviations
  • Only the Vowels are Different
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  • If At First You Don't Succeed...
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  • I didn't expect to see THAT letter doubled!
  • Tunie: Great Big Words
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  • Mony Mony
  • Phonestheme: TR-, the Long Walk
  • Phonestheme: ST-, the Defender
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  • Phonestheme: SP-, the Pointy Object
  • All X Up
  • Phonestheme: -ASH, the Action Movie
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  • Phonestheme: GR-, the Bad Mood
  • Phonestheme: FL-, the Thing with Wings
  • Phonestheme: DR-, the Pull of Gravity
  • Phonestheme: GL-, the Light Show
  • pterodactyl is a windbag
  • "-ic" becomes "-icking"
  • Side effects may include...
  • A Boy Named Sue
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  • Tunie: What's Your English
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