The tip of her tongue crept out between her lips in her concentration.

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It looks familiar and yet hard to place - a city that's on the tip of your tongue, remaining just out of reach.

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"The only way I can sum it up is like when you're trying to remember the name of a famous actor or film star and it's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't get it, " he said.

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The Austrian glassware company Riedel, for instance, makes a glass for dessert wine that is curved into a tulip shape in order to launch the wine away from the tip of the tongue and onto the middle and side of the tongue.

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Tip of the tongue.

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Strong vanilla taste on the tip and sides of the tongue, wood smoke flavors in the center of the mouth.

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One is by contacting the body, like by a tip of an oral thermometer touching under the tongue.

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