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Old 02-12-2023, 05:21 PM   #1216
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Some aspects of English are automatic to native English speakers, but hard to learn. I hardest the adjective order. The dress.

long
red
bright

There is only one right order.

Surely any American seeing calibre would realise like centre and center it's pronounced the same as caliber. Webster decided on the -er for all the -re words.

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