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Call Boatman For A Bit Of A Talk Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is PHONEME which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: PHONEME

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199%7Exact Match!
237%6Talk and talk and talk and talk
337%3Talk and talk and talk and talk

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We think the answer is "PHONEME" which means:

    noun
  • • (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

An example sentence would be:

  • • "In english, the 's' sound is a phoneme that distinguishes words like 'sit' and 'kiss'."
  • • "The phoneme 'ch' is represented by different letters in english words like 'chip' and 'machine'."

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The Guardian Cryptic20 Mar 2015 Down 18
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