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TIL 'Flip-Flop', 'chit chat', 'criss cross', are actually examples of a grammatical rule in English called, 'Ablaut Reduplication'. The rule always follows the same order of vowels, 'I-A-O'. There are no examples of Reduplication that break this rule.

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