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...smaller children and is working toward her Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard, learned about reading techniques and decided to write and illustrate her own primer. Since Jonny knew letter sounds, she converted them to sentences of readily decoded words, for example, "O, I am so ill." Since vowels make so many sounds, she focused first on consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences...
Following a number of Shavian stipulations, the Shaw-Read alphabet has 48 symbols, including 24 separate vowel sounds so that no matter what their context each one can be pronounced the same way. Its letters come in several matching-size categories such as "talls" and "deeps" (tails turned upside down). For example...
...Maoris are most careful to give every vowel and each syllable full and equal value, with a touch of Boston broadness. In the word under discussion, one takes a deep breath and says "tau" (as in cow), "martar," and then goes on from there, ending up with "tarhoo." For non-Maoris, the English translation is easier: "Hill Where the Great Husband of Heaven, Tane, Caused Plaintive Music from His Flute to Ascend to His Beloved...
...replaced the enunciation "hep," which had all the current meanings. Why? Because some hepster preferred the key of i to that of e, just as English vowel changes produced...
...solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe. There is Man-Man, who writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much-admired fraud named Bogart off to jail for nonsupport, his friend...