No one makes them feel bad when they say a word incorrectly, and they're not told to practice that word dozens of times.

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What is evident is that the relations between ministers and mandarins are at a crisis, in the strict medical sense of that word: that is to say, they are at a point at which they will either get better, or drastically worse.

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These studies not only allow us to understand communication in a new way, they also reveal methods to becoming much more persuasive and successful without changing a single word we say.

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They still didn't say a word to each other, and within seconds, he'd stood up.

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"I've never heard a bad word from them, I've never had arguments with them and all they say to me is positive things, " the striker told BBC Radio Stoke.

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And they say this is because it is so difficult in English to tell how a word is pronounced from the way it is written.

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But they did sympathise with their brethren across the border - no-one had a good word to say about the Northern Ireland Parades Commission which banned the Drumcree route.

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