Actors of the stage will sometimes murmur rhubarb, rhubarb when they need to create the impression of background conversation or the rabble of a crowd. Because rhubarb doesn't sound like any other common words and has relatively soft, round phonemes, it easily reduces to indecipherable nonsense-noise in the ear of the audience. Sort of a phonic lorem ipsum.

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