Word: apetition
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...Radcliffe News. Another had been inspired by a childhood hot-air balloon tour of Tuscany. And certainly, some of these recipes we had devised ourselves, tired as we were of cafe lunches and bistro suppers and craving simpler, heartier fare. As a simple Provencale peasant would say, bon apetit...
...week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
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