“David?”
“Yeah?”
“Is your mother actually British?”
“No. I thought you knew that.”
“Well, I thought I did. But…”
“But, what?”
“I heard her say ‘aluminium’ today.”
“Oh, that’s just the rule.”
“What rule?”
“The Moira Rose Rule of Polysyllabic Preference.”
“Excuse me?”
“Also known as the Rule of Monosyllabic Limitation.”
“Again, excuse me?”
“Everything must be
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