«One day the noted Uyghur troublemaker Al-Mar-Fuad showed up in English hunting tweeds and a deerstalker cap turned sidewise, with a sort of ultimatum in which one might just detect that difficulty with the prevocalic 'r' typical of the British upper class. "Gweetings, gentlemen, on this Glowious Twelfth!"»
(Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day)
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