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Trash will nutrit a raccoon quite nicely.
nutrit by ___alphabet___ January 22, 2025

æ-tensing 

A sound change that Americans invented to make British infiltrators easier to detect.
He pronounced "hand" as hænd rather than hɛənd, with no æ-tensing , so we knew to be suspicious of him.
æ-tensing by ___alphabet___ July 14, 2023

Colonel American 

The dialect of American English spoken among the social strata whose members have the greatest opportunity to become linguists. Often erroneously described as a General, despite not having earned such a promotion.
There's no rod-ride merger in Colonel American.