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Or, Continuing my daughter's education.
Now that my eldest daughter is home again I'm showing her how to do reading lessons with her youngest brother -- the two oldest girls are teaching reading to the two youngest children while I'm having a Latin lesson with my eleven year old daughter. Yesterday's lesson went something like this:
Me: Now sound out this word.
Little Man: Pĕĕĕĕĕnnnnn.
Me: Yes. What word?
LM: Pin.
Me: Good!
Eldest Daughter: But, he said "pin" not "pen."
Me: We're Southerners. That's the way we say it.
Some of y'all might remember this passage from The Fathers by Alan Tate, but I want to highlight one sentence in particular: "In pronunciation the criterion was the oral tradition, not the way the word looked in print to an uneducated school-teacher."
:-D
Yes! That IS the way we say it
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And glad that you linked to the previous entry because I had missed that and now am saving it to the quote file.
I had to explain this to Esther (5) this week when she tried to spell "butter" with two d's. Fun times! :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, is she that old already? o.o
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