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The image is a humorous infographic set against a solid light purple background. It presents a tongue-in-cheek guide titled "How to turn toast back into bread" followed by the subtitle "...in only three easy steps!" in black sans-serif text.

Step 1 reads: "1. Take the phonetic realisation of the word 'toast'." Below this, there is a phonetic transcription showing `<toast> > /toust/`.

Step 2 reads: "2. Gently apply a few millennia of regular phonetic shifts." This section features a white rectangular box containing a table with two columns and a corresponding visual column on the far right. The table lists numbered rows from 0 to 13, showing linguistic rules on the left and the resulting word form on the right.

The table content is as follows:
Row 0 shows the starting word: `toust`
Row 1 shows the rule `ou > oy` and the result `toyst`
Row 2 shows the rule `CC# > CCe#` and the result `'toys.te` (where the dot under the e indicates a schwa sound)
Row 3 shows the rule `oy,oi > wə,we` and the result `'twəs.te`
Row 4 shows the rule `CwV > Cu.wV` and the result `tu'wəs.te`
Row 5 shows the rule `C[-voiced] > C[+voiced] / !{#_,_#}` and the result `tu'wəz.de`
Row 6 shows the rule `w,j > b,ʒ / !{#_,_#}` and the result `tu'bɔz.de`
Row 7 shows the rule `V[-stressed] > ø` (indicating deletion) and the result `tbəzd`
Row 8 shows the rule `z > r` and the result `tbɜrd`
Row 9 shows the rule `C > ø / #_C[+stop]` (indicating deletion of
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