Word: cordelian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost stopped noticing her theatrical gestures and her peculiar style of speech: "Never having cared to ask her about it, Richard had had fantasies of an Andorran nanny, a childhood in a posh Albanian household that had left no other mark, before concluding that Cordelia just spoke Cordelian, a pronunciational idiolect." When friends mock the way she says her name ("Nggornndeenlia"), Richard tries not to be amused...
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