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user-inactivated  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What was the last word you learned?

Upon glancing I thought I knew this word... Then, came the explanation. I thought of "palatal", which is a description what we call a "soft vowel" in Russian; the T in Alan Turing's surname is palatal.