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Old 04-02-2017, 10:47 AM
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Harry S. Truman grew up in a small town, but was a voracious reader at the the local library. It was said that as a politician he had an impressive vocabulary but mispronounced many of the words, because he learned them from reading.
I've often though better someone tries to use big words and pronounces them wrong than not have any interest in developing an interesting vocabulary.
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