• webghost0101
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    10 days ago

    No, i think i get it but difficult to explain.

    Say X, X, X in a row

    Then say

    Xylo , Xen, Xono

    The Raw letter has different phonet-x to how it’s often applied.

    When were talking about teaching kids the alphabet we need to train both individual and applied letters

    I do realize that this might be very cultural and language dependent but i am pretty sure we’re talking plain english.

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      When were talking about teaching kids the alphabet we need to train both individual and applied letters

      This is only slightly related but I once met a young (USAmerican) adult who thought the stripy horse animal’s name was pronounced zed-bra in British English and it was really hard to convince her otherwise. In her mind zebra was strongly connected to Z-bra, so of course if someone was to pronounce the letter “zed” it would turn into “zed-bra” and not just into “zeh-bra”.