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...Pronounced Buh-tzal-el, the museum is named after the first master craftsman in the Bible (Exodus 31:2), who built the tabernacle in the wilderness...
...Philippines 30 years ago, Laubach designed picture-word-syllable charts of the Maranaw language, launched an "Each-One-Teach-One" campaign among Moro tribesmen that made them 90% literate in a few months. The system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed on a cup, d on a dish, f on a fish. Then come vowels, easy stories and eventually writing in script...
...reading aloud. At 14 he spent six months in bed recovering from tuberculosis. He quit high school at 16. He was already working as an office boy and part-time announcer at a station in Jackson (WIBM) for $3 a week. Oldtimers still remember his style. "This is Jack Buh-Buh-Buh-Boo Paar, your announcer," he would croon, or "This is your young and popular announcer, Bing Paar." He kept a discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing, but he sat before it by the hour, reading aloud from plays, books, magazines...
Balloons & Feathers. The school's 150 pupils range from 4½ to the late teens. When they enter Clarke, many have never said a word, not even their own names. To get the sound "buh-buh-buh" across, a teacher may place her lips against a balloon, while the pupil places his on the other side. As the sound is repeated, the pupil learns it from the vibrations he feels. The "f" sound can be taught by holding a feather close to the mouth and seeing how it flutters when the consonant is spoken correctly. Puffing at a slip...
...btih-buh-bove you d-d-d-darling...