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Listen to native speakers pronounce “the old wives' tale” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
Now, this may be to some extent derogatory, because Plato, for example-- as early as Plato-- he says, oh, those are just old wives' tales.So the idea of the old wives' tale, which is exactly what it is in Greek, is a sense a story that is kind of whatwe call now "fake news." It's a sort of nostrum full of superstition and ignorance.