Word: vowels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Describe the development of the Indo-European vowel system into that of IV Century Attic Greek. Treat the vowels as a structured system, not as an agglomerate of isolated cases...
...EDUCATION, it runs not only the season's No. 2 installment of Kudos but a story about a new system that teaches children to read by keying consonant and vowel sounds to certain colors. According to this system, by the way, TIME is "spelled" magenta, light yellow and scarlet orange...
Londoner Gattegno, 54, who made a lot of money by introducing the Cuisenaire rods that help moppets to master math (TIME, Jan. 31), uses a rain-bow-hued set of word charts. They give each of English's 20 vowel sounds a color of its own. Thus the u in up is printed in yellow, and so are the identical-sounding o in done, oe in does, oo in blood. The o in no is tan, and so are seven other spellings that sound the same, like the eau in beau and the ough in though. There...
Tammy and the Doctor. Let's see. In the last episode, Tammy took her nanny goat and her shanty boat and went down the river to Seminola College to learn to talk proper. Well, the Seminola speech department must have thrown in the vowel, because Tammy is still babbling her own unearthly blend of Christopher Marlowe and Al Capp. The bayous behind her, she is now a nurse's aide in a big Los Angeles hospital...
...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...