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Phonetic Spelling

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
February
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Spell toes," sald tlue mother, who ;is teadlïiing her little daughter, 7 yirs uld, to spell. "T-oz-e," answered the chflfl. "Xo, dear, tÏKit's not right. T-o-e-s kivpIIs toes." 'I'.ut it sounds like t-o-z-e." "I know it, but yim oannot jro iv tlie sound." Then, in order to enforce this propoettlon, tbe motlier called on lier datlghter to epell froze. "F-r-o-e-s," saád the child. '"'No, you're Tong agaiu. Tliis time w do use the z and peil the word f-r-o-z-e." "lluli !" grunted the cliild. "Xow, spell rose," naid the mother. Tlie child hesiCated. Flnally ehe id, "I don't know whether to say r-o-z-e or r-OTe-B, md reaíly I don't know tliat tither wny would le rlghit" "Spell it r-o-s-e," said the niothor, "though there is another word ironounced just like it ttmt's spellod r-oe. Th.at "word is the name of the spawn of fishes." The poor little child looked very miserable. "Juet ome more word," said the motJier. "Teil me how to hjxII blows." "Well," said tfhe child, who had had quite eaiougfli nonsense, as she viewed t, from her mother, and had HiulcU'nly made up her mimi u pay hack in kind, "I epell it thrce ivays. I epcll it b-l-o-e for breakfaet, b-l-o-e- for dinuor, and b-1-o-z-e for Kmiper." "I pell it b-1-o-w-s all tli# tinic.' s.iiil tlie mothr. Tlie cliild Baid nothing for a minute or Uvo. Then, lookini; op, she lolemnly remarieed : 'I tihjiik, mamma, that the Englisli langualge vas made for persons very, very veil ednoated."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier