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Alan Jay Lerner Quotes: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
         

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?


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