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Stops Or Starts Playing Billiards

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45%9 It describes the shift from voiceless stops to fricatives, and voiced stops to voiceless stops
noun

• a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

30%6 Characterized by starts and stops
adjective satellite

• occurring in spells and often abruptly

• intermittently stopping and starting

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