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Ever wondered why it’s ‘tick-tock’ and not ‘tock-tick’?
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The BBC explains why we say ‘tick-tock’, not ‘tock-tick’, ‘ding-dong’, not ‘dong-ding’, and ‘chit-chat’, not ‘chat-chit’.

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