English is a dragon of a language, dozing atop an enormous mountain of phonemes. What if they were all melted down and minted into something more consistent? And then we tried to speak it? The results sound a bit like a Welsh accent. [YouTube]
Phonetically consistent English
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Community Tax can walk you through every step of settling your outstanding IRS tax burden
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