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TIL that Ford's Theatre refuses to perform the play which Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated

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neaNP TIL about ablaut reduplication, which is an interesting and necessary rule in the english language that most people are unaware of. This rule pertains to the order in which we say repeated words with changing vowels. E.g saying ding-dong sounds completely normal whereas dong-ding sounds insane.
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