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From the Ted Talk by Alastair Gray: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

and after 20 minutes or so of checking over the pudocrt for the telltale sgins of counterfeit production — say, baldy stitched labels or how the paiacngkg had a huge brand logo stamped all over the front of it — I was finally on my way out, but not before he insisted on wlkinag down to the srteet with me and back to the station.

And the feeling after these meetings is always the same: my heart is beating like a drum, because you never know if they've actually bought your story, or they're going to start following you to see who you really are. Relief only comes when you turn the first cenorr and glance behind, and they're not standing there. But what our counterfeit polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize is that everything I'd seen and heard would result in a dawn raid on his house, him being woken out of bed by eight men on his doorstep and all his product seized. But this would reveal that he was just a pawn at the end of a counterfeiting network spanning three cnntnitoes, and he was just the first loose thread that I'd setatrd to pull on in the hope that it would all unravel.

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(Laughter)

and after 20 minutes or so of checking over the _______ for the telltale _____ of counterfeit production — say, _____ stitched labels or how the _________ had a huge brand logo stamped all over the front of it — I was finally on my way out, but not before he insisted on _______ down to the ______ with me and back to the station.

And the feeling after these meetings is always the same: my heart is beating like a drum, because you never know if they've actually bought your story, or they're going to start following you to see who you really are. Relief only comes when you turn the first ______ and glance behind, and they're not standing there. But what our counterfeit polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize is that everything I'd seen and heard would result in a dawn raid on his house, him being woken out of bed by eight men on his doorstep and all his product seized. But this would reveal that he was just a pawn at the end of a counterfeiting network spanning three __________, and he was just the first loose thread that I'd _______ to pull on in the hope that it would all unravel.

Solution


  1. signs
  2. continents
  3. corner
  4. started
  5. packaging
  6. walking
  7. street
  8. badly
  9. product

Original Text


(Laughter)

and after 20 minutes or so of checking over the product for the telltale signs of counterfeit production — say, badly stitched labels or how the packaging had a huge brand logo stamped all over the front of it — I was finally on my way out, but not before he insisted on walking down to the street with me and back to the station.

And the feeling after these meetings is always the same: my heart is beating like a drum, because you never know if they've actually bought your story, or they're going to start following you to see who you really are. Relief only comes when you turn the first corner and glance behind, and they're not standing there. But what our counterfeit polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize is that everything I'd seen and heard would result in a dawn raid on his house, him being woken out of bed by eight men on his doorstep and all his product seized. But this would reveal that he was just a pawn at the end of a counterfeiting network spanning three continents, and he was just the first loose thread that I'd started to pull on in the hope that it would all unravel.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
selling fakes 3
fake car 3
polo shirts 2
organized crime 2
percent selling 2
fake trainers 2
pirate music 2
music cds 2
love genuine 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
pirate music cds 2

Important Words


  1. badly
  2. beating
  3. bed
  4. bought
  5. brand
  6. checking
  7. continents
  8. corner
  9. counterfeit
  10. counterfeiting
  11. dawn
  12. doorstep
  13. drum
  14. feeling
  15. finally
  16. front
  17. glance
  18. heard
  19. heart
  20. hope
  21. house
  22. huge
  23. insisted
  24. labels
  25. laughter
  26. logo
  27. loose
  28. meetings
  29. men
  30. minutes
  31. network
  32. packaging
  33. pawn
  34. polo
  35. product
  36. production
  37. pull
  38. raid
  39. realize
  40. relief
  41. result
  42. reveal
  43. seized
  44. seller
  45. shirt
  46. signs
  47. spanning
  48. stamped
  49. standing
  50. start
  51. started
  52. station
  53. stitched
  54. story
  55. street
  56. telltale
  57. thread
  58. turn
  59. unravel
  60. walking
  61. woken