In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people. (Patrick Kavanagh)

In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.

Patrick Kavanagh

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