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How Harry Potter helped end Laos' ban on the letter R
Listen closely in Laos and you can hear a linguistic renaissance. It sounds a lot like the letter R.
Forty-five years ago, Laos' communist government officially dropped the R sound from the Lao alphabet, calling it a symbol of foreign influence.
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