“It did take him a bit of time to learn to pronounce my name, but he was always apologetic when he said it wrong, and always insisted on the importance of getting such things right. He was easily the most inspirational and challenging teacher I’ve had…he just insisted that every ...
similar to the Hobbits who are *over there* in the shire, mostly invisible to us humans, but living very equivalent lives to our own, within their territories and family structures, and functionally doing what we humans are doing: trying to survive and eke out a living in an...
and walk. Some people pronounce these words as rhyming with -ok (walk, lock) while other people pronounce them as rhyming with the -aw sound (talk, hawk). I would teach these -lk words as a small word family and not confuse the child with other letter variations. ...