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<h1>Minimal Pairs</h1>
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<tr><td class="left">pull</td><td class="right">pool</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">pulled</td><td class="right">pooled</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">wood</td><td class="right">wooed</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">would</td><td class="right">wooed</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">should</td><td class="right">shoed</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">could</td><td class="right">cooed</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">full</td><td class="right">fool</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">soot</td><td class="right">suit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">hood</td><td class="right">who'd</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">look</td><td class="right">Luke</td></tr>

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