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Critterature: the Frustrated Llama

The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces. "The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces. "The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his dissertation, "And a 'lama' is a holy man of Tibetan derivation. But what I cannot understand," says he, "Is why it's not left up to me To solve a problem that's become the worst case Of mispronunciation in the history of creation, And spell it 'yama', like it sounds, in the first place!"

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Date: 11/15/2023 2:07:00 PM
Well I learned something new and had fun all at once
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Jim Slaughter
Date: 11/16/2023 10:34:00 AM
Then my work is done! Thanks, Tom.
Date: 11/12/2023 1:44:00 PM
Enjoyed your poem, and never heard that pronunciation. Yinteresting!
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Jim Slaughter
Date: 11/12/2023 1:49:00 PM
You and a lot of others, David. Thanks.

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