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Mal Webb
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As a lover of linguistics, I'm intrigued by the logistics
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Of the oral peril lurking when a word's embarked upon
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But when twisted vowel and consternance are gone
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One word gives more grief than all of the remaining lexicon
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Is it the diphthong in "Goodbye" that makes it difficult?
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Or do the D and B conspire to trap your tongue?
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Or is the G right at the start what tends to be the awkward part
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That catches in your throat before the word has yet begun?
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On paper its phonetic structure's not atypical
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And yet the glibbest wits still choke on it each day
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If not the diphthong in "Goodbye", it makes no sense why
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We seem to find it such a tricky word to say
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While "Help" and "Sorry" challenge some
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One word can leave me dumb
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Every time I try, like now, to say "Goodbye".
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