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Letter: Now if you're ready, oysters dear...

Published 15 November 2017

From Alan Whitworth, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, UK

It is good to know that the tongue-twister “a noisy noise annoys an oyster” is now scientifically proven by the observation that they can “hear”(28 October, p 18).

Issue no. 3152 published 18 November 2017

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