Word: bouloan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...
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