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America might still lamentably be divided on gay marriage and marijuana legalization, but as this recent NC State statistics study<\/a> points out, the most divisive factor could be the way we pronounce the name of that innocuous little decapod residing in creeks across the country: the crawfish. Read on and you’ll realize that if we even want to dream of having an official language, we need to actually act like it first.<\/p>\n

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\"Sunshine\"<\/p>\n

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