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   Hi Anton -- on Nov 17 2019 at 12:28, you wrote:   
      
   AS> Whereas  patent  medicine  is  a  patent fraud.  What is the   
   AS> difference in the pronunciation of `patent' in the first and   
   AS> second occurences in the previous sentence?   
      
   There's no difference in pronunciation, regardelss of usage, although   
   some countries say "pa-tent" and some say "pae-tent".   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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