From lax to tense
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The complexity of the English vowel system, specifically the tense/lax distinction, in nefarious conspiracy with our phonemic word-initial glottal fricatives, strikes again: France's foreign minister was quoted as saying that he wasn't too worried about Iran potentially developing nulcear weapons, because Israel would eat them before that could happen.
Perhaps M. Kouchner might consider a quick burst of training in the HPVT method.
Hat tip to Andrew Carnie.