Japanese anglophones—but not Chinese ones—often struggle with distinguishing /r/ and /l/.

This gentleman and the guard seemed to know Sir Pitt very well, and laughed at him a great deal. They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wQTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73 page 73, column 2 Mother Goose was produced on the 29th of December; Simmons playing the Old Dame; […] https://books.google.com/books?id=wQTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73 page 74, column 1 Bugle condemns her to the ducking-stool, a sentence opposed by Colin, who espouses the cause of the Old Dame, who, escaping from her persecutors, puts an end to the wedding festivities by raising the ghost of the Squire's first wife.

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