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I’ve come home from a long weekend in Denmark to the news that Miriam Makeba has died.

When I was a linguistics undergraduate, it was claimed that she made click sounds famous through her click song:

I had never heard about her before, nor about the click song, but I borrowed it from the library and enjoyed the clicks.

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