_naive_ > "nieve"

[Wilson Gray]

I once thought that "naive" was pronounced like "nave," because I read
it before I heard it. That writer has heard it, but has never read it,
I guess. He's Australian. So, it's not just an American thing.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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