Hot take: I don't like alphabet learning materials using giraffe for "G"

[greentwiga]

@sleepy321 Oh no, people are out here pronouncing the G in gyro?

 

[jamesnevillelee]

@greentwiga Jai-Roh!

 

[azza1143]

@jamesnevillelee Wait... it's not GEE-ROH with a rolled R?

 

[greentwiga]

@azza1143 They are both wrong, it's YEER-oh, the G is silent.

 

[pjimbo]

@greentwiga I've actually seen it spelled yeeros in Australia.

 

[whatsinaname]

@pjimbo That sounds like an Australian thing to do.

 

[pjimbo]

@whatsinaname Far enough away from me not to doxx myself:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zakQn1L58GVSR8jZ7

 

[greentwiga]

@pjimbo I for one welcome the second Australian Cultural Invasion (Paul Hogan bring us Yanks yeeros!)

 

[azza1143]

@greentwiga Oh man. Time to correct everyone ordering next time like the smarty I am!!

 

[greentwiga]

@azza1143 Then tell your server about the one about Odysseus and the Cyclops. Greek puns and word pronunciation Dad jokes always KILLS the minimum wage diner worker.

 

[jamesnevillelee]

@azza1143 Yeah it’s YEER-oh, I was just being silly

 

[00saved777]

@moongold Well I don't like the English language having multiple letters / letter combinations to represent the same phonemes.

 

[pjimbo]

@00saved777 How do you like gefilte ghoti?

 

[bellebunga]

@00saved777 My wife is Czech, and every letter in Czech has just a single sound (they use accents for different sounds and don’t have digraphs or trigraphs). She finds English very annoying!

 

[mshtony]

@00saved777 I think English and French are the Latin alphabet languages with the worst correspondence between letters and pronunciation. Spanish, Italian, German, Polish etc are much more straight forward.

 

[bryanj]

@00saved777 The way they taught my kid was, they taught one spelling of each phoneme and then they added more and more graphemes over time. At the beginning he would get marked correct if his writing was spelled phonetically correctly with the graphemes he had been taught, even if the spelling was actually wrong (terodactil is correct for example).

By the end he had a like 5 or 6 graphemes for each phoneme and some graphemes in multiple phonemes... yeah English is great.

 

[jsanford108]

@00saved777 Try the Filipino alphabet. It’s the English alphabet minus the useless letters (C, Q, V, X, Z). J? No need for that either, just use DY together. Dyeep, dyuggler, dyello dyigglers. It works fine. Never mind what’s happening with F or NG.

 

[alfie13]

@moongold I like books that show multiples for different hard and soft sounds.

 

[kayasal]

@moongold I just refunded a set of picture alphabet flashcards. Try to guess what the picture is based on the guess of my 2yo…

P is for “bird!”
S is for “white bird!”

Finally lost it at:
Y is for “boat!”

I felt like my kid was about to get extremely lost if I kept it up.

(It was Parrot, Swan, Yacht)

 

[bryanj]

@kayasal Yacht, really? A silent ch? Your flash cards suck!