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  1. Consonants Need Vowels?

    I remember being told that consonants need vowels by one of my elementary school teachers. I remember repeating this to my oldest sister, Lynda, after she had a kid or two.

    Lynda said no you don’t need a vowel sound to make a consonant sound. You can just say Boo [as in book] or Foo [as in foot], for the B and F sounds. Notice that I had to use vowels to illustrate my point. But I never caught on to that at the time.

    So I remember pre talking with her babies and using what I thought were just consonant sounds to get them to the point where they could almost speak. A couple months later they were speaking.

    The short oo sound is the “invisible” vowel in English. It is the u in pull and bull. And the vowel that is between the T and L in cattle and bottle. It may seem invisible at first, but it is definitely there. I don’t blame my sister or me for not realizing it was a vowel, because shows like Electric Company would use this “invisible” vowel to sound out words.

    For instance they would say Boo A Doo when sounding out the word Bad. Then they would say the three letter names closer and closer together until magically the oo sound disappeared and they said Bad.

    When I realized this, I thought for years that what I was originally told was correct. Consonants need vowels.

    That is until I saw mmmm written out one day and I forced myself to think about this. So it became consonants need vowels except m.

    Then I thought of a few more. Ssss doesn’t need a vowel. Neither does zzzz. There are also Shhhh and Zhhhh. (If you’re wondering what sound zh is, it’s the g in mirage, the s in leisure. In school I was taught that it was the soft g sound.)

    Anyhow, that’s five exceptions to the consonants need vowels rule. Do you have any more?

    #consonants #consonantsNeedVowels #ElectricCompany #elementarySchool #invisibleVowel #mmm #preTalking #shhh #shortOoShound #softG #speaking #sss #vowels #zhhh #zzz

  2. Making #christmas cookies, laid out on the cooling racks in rows of three.

    “How many do we have?”

    3 6 9,
    12 15 18,
    21 24 27,
    30…

    Man, the #electricCompany energy is still strong 45+ years later.

    #iykyk #pbs #learnToCount

  3. Tom Lehrer fans: Lehrer put all his music -- including recordings and sheet music -- in the public domain, and online, years ago.

    Everything is at tomlehrersongs.com/ which now warns that it may be shut down soon, so download anything you wan,t soon.Then have fun: performance and translation rights are also in the public domain. "Help yourselves, and don't send me any money."

    #lehrer #ElectricCompany #parodies #PublicDomain #Silent_E

  4. “Comedy is legal again on #Twitter” — but whatever you do, don’t make a joke about #Elmo’s cratering #ElectricCompany. #TSLA 😬

    This is what happens when someone’s reality distortion field gets in a recursive self-reinforcing destructive loop fueled by infinite money. He can just keep buying the reality he wants — at our expense.
    #EvacuateTwitter