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chris_j
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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
My favourite example of this sort of redundancy is the fact that there are numerous rivers in England called the River Avon. Avon is believed to come from the Proto-Brythonic word "aβon" [0], meaning "river".
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Brythoni...
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[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Brythoni...