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(auto): I love kindergarten, because it’s when kids start learning to read, which opens up whole new vistas of connections for them. Last night, my kindergartener said,

The sound an eye makes

Friday 24 October 2003 — This is nearly 22 years old. Be careful.

I love kindergarten, because it’s when kids start learning to read, which opens up whole new vistas of connections for them. Last night, my kindergartener said,

Dad, isn’t C the sound an eye makes?

I had to admit that it kind of was.

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jake 1:12 PM on 24 Oct 2003
reminds me of one of my niece's statements when she saw a moth for the first time at about the same age: "Look Mommy! a bug in a dress!"
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Matt 4:21 PM on 27 Oct 2003
What that your kindergartener, or Homestar Runner in the Malloween commercial?
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Ned Batchelder 7:05 PM on 28 Oct 2003
D'oh! I thought the kid had come up with this himself. Turns out it's a line from Homestar!
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David Boudreau 10:59 PM on 28 Oct 2003
C is not a sound. C is the name of the symbol we write, and that symbol has sounds, but these sounds are distinct from the name C as well as it's pronunciation (/see/). (the sounds of C are /k/ and /s/.)

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