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It's the Friday thread that will not die... 

My 5 year old asked me what "IF" spelled. I asked him what sound the "I" made, he replied "ih". I asked what sound the "F" made, he replied "fff". I asked him to put them together, and he pronounced "if". Then he asked me what "OF" spelled. I gave up. 

Won't even get into bough, cough, dough, rough, and through. I can barely keep them straight myself.

>>> [log in to unmask] 05/09/05 03:24PM >>>
Makes me think of a phonetic language proposal floated some years ago on the Internet where all unused letters were removed and all consonant sounds like the "hard C" were replaced by the letter K.  It was a bit Germainc in appearance, but if you just let go of your prelearned English it was actually eaiser to read.

I remember my kids asking questions about Lead vs Lead or Read vs Read.  And then there is polish versus Polish.  Ah, English is such a quirky and wacky language.  Sort of a melting pot of all the other languages.

Phil


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