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Comedian-songster Jimmy Durante once quipped, during his 1930s radio show 'The Petrol Carbide Co. Tinned Olive Radio and Variety Hour', that he would easily mistake his wife, Mildred, for a dragon, but for the fact that 'when that lousy dame shouts at me, at least flames aren't coming out of her mouth'. This pleasant anecdote illustrates a rather important point: dragons do not, in fact, call one another by name, as they breath fire, not air. The sounds forming human names are produced in the human larynx by the passage of compressed air along the vocal chords. Dragons, in contrast, breath fire, super-heating any air that would happen to be in their gullet. This super-heating diminishes the density of air to the point where even the relatively sensitive dragon larynx cannot be compelled to vibrate, meaning that no audible sound can be produced. Note than when surveyed (in writing, of course), most dragons indicate that earth dragons would likely be named 'Janet' or 'Lydia'.

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