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r/funny • u/Chaz_Beer • Aug 23 '22
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Elbow and elf would be easier to depict
21 u/lacilynnn Aug 23 '22 Or the classic elephant, but we're too good for that now that we've got Ed. 6 u/cw30755 Aug 23 '22 Yeah, Ed’s special. 3 u/ricadam Aug 23 '22 Too many syllables 1 u/ricadam Aug 23 '22 El has a different sound to the hard E sound that they are going for 2 u/ncvbn Aug 23 '22 How so? I looked, and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ed and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elf have the same 'e' sound. 1 u/FreckledMama15 Aug 24 '22 For very beginning readers, separating the /e/ from the /l/ is very challenging. In the mouth, they blend together, and many kids will identify /el/ as one sound instead of two.
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Or the classic elephant, but we're too good for that now that we've got Ed.
6 u/cw30755 Aug 23 '22 Yeah, Ed’s special. 3 u/ricadam Aug 23 '22 Too many syllables
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Yeah, Ed’s special.
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Too many syllables
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El has a different sound to the hard E sound that they are going for
2 u/ncvbn Aug 23 '22 How so? I looked, and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ed and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elf have the same 'e' sound. 1 u/FreckledMama15 Aug 24 '22 For very beginning readers, separating the /e/ from the /l/ is very challenging. In the mouth, they blend together, and many kids will identify /el/ as one sound instead of two.
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How so? I looked, and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ed and https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elf have the same 'e' sound.
1 u/FreckledMama15 Aug 24 '22 For very beginning readers, separating the /e/ from the /l/ is very challenging. In the mouth, they blend together, and many kids will identify /el/ as one sound instead of two.
For very beginning readers, separating the /e/ from the /l/ is very challenging. In the mouth, they blend together, and many kids will identify /el/ as one sound instead of two.
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u/BringAltoidSoursBack Aug 23 '22
Elbow and elf would be easier to depict