In Chinese, when we read the number “1”, many people are used to pronounce it as “yao”  instead of “yi”.  But for people who have been to China for not too long, they would easily get confused. In today’s story, our protagonist Roy had some misunderstanding about the pronunciation of the number “1” in Chinese when he visited a hospital. We will see that both he and the doctor got quite confused. 

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