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Why “Forty Magpies”?
The name Forty Magpies was inspired by one of the peculiarities of the Russian language. In Russian, forty magpies is "сорок сорок" [sorok sorok]. Orthographically, this is the same word twice. When spoken, however, the syllables are stressed differently, changing the meaning.
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