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"ref": "2016, Dr. Jol, Suburban Brand, Charlotte Publishing Press",
"text": "They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”",
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"ref": "2018, Gloria Trubbshore, Băṭluptă, Xlibris",
"text": "It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize.",
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"ref": "2019, Harald W. Krenn, Insect Mouthparts: Form, Function, Development and Performance, page 452",
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"(zoology) The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect."
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"text": "This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]",
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"text": "Thus significant differences exist between the glossas of different individuals: indeed, one person may have more than one distinctive glossa. And there are differences between the glossas of people of different linguistic backgrounds which correspond with the differences between their mother tongues, allowing for the influence of other languages which they may know to some extent.",
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"(phonology) Unintelligible ecstatic speech."
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"text": "Her swollen “button” hitting his glossa tip provided wave after wave of full body pleasure.",
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},
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"ref": "2018, Gloria Trubbshore, Băṭluptă, Xlibris",
"text": "It was his glossa, strange that; when dead men had no need to verbalize.",
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"ref": "2019, Harald W. Krenn, Insect Mouthparts: Form, Function, Development and Performance, page 452",
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},
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},
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"text": "Thus significant differences exist between the glossas of different individuals: indeed, one person may have more than one distinctive glossa. And there are differences between the glossas of people of different linguistic backgrounds which correspond with the differences between their mother tongues, allowing for the influence of other languages which they may know to some extent.",
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"Unintelligible ecstatic speech."
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"(phonology) Unintelligible ecstatic speech."
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