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Old 10-26-2007, 06:47 AM
Sciolist Sciolist is offline
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Default Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.

It's confirmation bias, you just didn't notice it before, and now you are paying particular attention for it. You also don't recognise when you learn a new word and DON'T hear it lots of times shortly afterwards.
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