• There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

  Annie Dillard
  American author 1945-
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1. recognizable
2. inflections
3. syllable
4. english
5. spoken

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. by : Annie Dillard

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