tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629778941061560531.post8963427425441499847..comments2023-05-09T11:48:35.790-04:00Comments on Home School Online: Annoyed By the Letter XUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629778941061560531.post-27961960607209897042011-11-27T10:06:16.005-05:002011-11-27T10:06:16.005-05:00I just ran across this post by accident on a Googl...I just ran across this post by accident on a Google search. It's hysterical! And it's a true and common problem. Of all the phonemes (are there 44?), there is not one as messed up as X. There are come good competitors.<br /><br />And how annoying are the letters Y and w which are consontants except when they're vowels. Very troubling.<br /><br />The part of the language that I would most like to improve is our words for numbers. Why not count:<br />... seven eight nine onety onety-one onety-two onety-three onety-four onety-five onety-five onety-six onety-seven onety-eight onety-nine twenty twenty-one etc<br /><br />This would sooo improve our kids basic understanding of our number system and math. Instead of being confused by our hybrid naming system, it would clarify. I mean the words "eleven" and "twelve" are legacies from the 12 (or dozen) based number system. The the "-teen" based words date from the twenty-based number system. These have basically been obsoleted and we've adopted the ten-based system. Lets clean up the language too.<br /><br />copyright - vkidz inc.BBat50https://www.blogger.com/profile/09736054246852300843noreply@blogger.com