A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

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Once there was a young rat named Arthur,
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who could never make up his mind.
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Whenever his friends asked him
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if he would like to go out with them,
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he would  only answer,
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"I don't know."
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He wouldn't say "yes" or "no" either .
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He would  always shirk making a choice.
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