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Bone Apple Tea

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there.

I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.