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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Shepherds

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some of them hang out with sheep for the sheer joy of it which of the words is [Shepherd shearing a sheep]

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spelled correctly and here the potential answers all right it means the others are all

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spelled incorrectly so we've got four words here and all them happen to have

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silent letters in their correct spellings which of them left in a letter that [Letters together being told to be quiet]

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shouldn't be there let's start with option A; campaign

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don't ask us why but there supposed to be a G in that word right before the end

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yeah we know English can be a real pain and that's pain without a G next up asthma [Man attempting to speak English]

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well here the word isn't even pronounced correctly when we try to say

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it as written so we can pretty much well mix this one right away here it looks [word asthma scribbled out on a page]

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like ashma, which is probably when you have trouble breathing around

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extinguished campfires after the s'mores are all smoldering in there what about [Man stood by a smoking campfire]

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C Shepherd now we're missing a second H in this one it's actually spelled S-H-E-P

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H-E-R-D as in herding sheep like Shepherd, sheep-herd.. wow that

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actually makes sense the one word that left its silent letter where it belongs [heirloom written on a piece of paper]

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is D heirloom we don't pronounce that H but we sure do include it when the

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word is written out if you ever see it spelled this way then it's possible some [Shepherd razor's the H off of the word heirloom]

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maniacal shepherd got too close to it with the electric razor

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