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Probably I'll never forget reading a book to toddlers called A Carousel Tale in which the hero is a blue crocodile named Ernst. We read it enough times that, becoming a little bored with the story, eventually I started to notice the awkwardness of forming the sound "Ernst" so many times, and ... I'm sorry, I started to make a little joke of it. RNST! It's like beatboxing. Too many consonants - not really noticeable when occasionally encountering it as a name but if I have to repeat it, it's a silly and distracting sensation, like the word desks or tests but funnier.

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- mirfak