Word: vowell
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...them to recognize sounds, then syllables, then words and sentences. There's lots of practice and repetition." And a fair number of what the kids call tricks, or rules, for reading. (Among the most important and familiar: the magic e at the end of a word that makes a vowel say its name, as in make or cute.) A particularly good route to fluency is to practice reading aloud with a skilled reader who can gently correct mistakes. That way the brain builds up the right associations between words and sounds from the start...
...recognize and often can't decipher: Ludacris, Linkin Park, Staind and Korn, for example. (Did I miss something, or have we now officially determined that "K" is an acceptable substitute for "C" and "Z" can fill in for "S"? And what's the deal with all these bands dropping vowels from their names? Are the cool kids all anti-vowel...
...address. When duplicates arise, the first letter of the first name, and sometimes the middle intial, is put in front. If even that doesnt work, numbers are added to the end. Heres where Harvard gets aesthetic on us: if the eighth letter of the students last name is a vowel, the last letter gets cut off and the first letter of his first name fills in at the front. The reason? Vowel endings look funny. The only way Harvard will change an email address is if a students name was inaccurately recorded, if a student legally changes...
...Absence a woman sits down at her typewriter to "create a story that possessed a granddaughter, a Boston fern, a golden apple, and a small blue cradle," only to discover that one of the keys, "a vowel, the very letter that attaches to the hungry self," won't work. The story about this deprivation unspools like a Mobius strip, since it too is told without the use of the letter...
...lives out--a different story every episode. But the real stars are the words that the program's Sesame Street-esque skits, songs and cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain's Word," a spoof on Wayne's World, jousting knights representing phonemes (sn and ooze for example) collide to make words (snooze for example...