Linguistics Trivia

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The official language of Belgium is not Belgiumish, as we said in an item yesterday. We regret the error. Belgium's language is actually known as Belch."

Addendum: Two correspondents, Jim Flanagan and Dominic Dunlop, have pointed out to me that Belch is closely related to Phlegmish.