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If you spot out anything you might have articulated differently, it’d be great to hear

I'm not a native speaker, but I'd use "spot" rather than "spot out". Don't know why, just looks a bit unusual.

You "call out" something that you’ve spotted.

I suspect that the OP has merged one idiom into the other :)

As a native speaker, "spot" by itself or maybe more formally a verb like "notice" would be something that I would use in normal everyday speech in this context.

I would probably write: “If you spot anything you might have articulated differently, it’d be great to hear about it!”

OPs grammar & vocabulary is really impressive. Internalising all these entirely unwritten rules that are implicit to native speakers of a language is what makes the difference between someone who is "merely" (! hah: like there’s anything unimpressive about being fluent in a non-native tongue) fluent & someone who sounds like they grew up with the language.

(I know someone who has lived in Paris for decades & speaks fluent French, but to this day still speaks French with an obvious Yorkshire accent. Not even just an English accent: it’s obviously a Yorkshire one!)

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