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Rosaleen Fenton & Emma Dunn

Barman who can taste words explains the name he could never date due to urine flavour

Meet the man with a rare condition who can taste, smell and feel words - who reveals he'd never date a Kirsty because the name smells of urine and says Donald Trump is like a 'deflating rubber duck'.

Henry Gray, 23, has always been able to taste, smell or have a feeling associated with words for as long as he can remember and discovered he had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in 2009 - after his parents and teachers picked up on him commenting on the tastes for his classmate's names.

Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that results in the joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected - those affected can often taste or smell when hearing, speaking, reading or thinking about words.

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