A conversation between a tutor and student at the Youth Brigade where I work. Marla is seven and is learning to read.
Tutor: OK, Marla, what vowel makes the sound "eh?"
Marla: (silent, hunts for the answer in her book)
Tutor: Marla?
Marla: (emerges from book as though she's just been preoccupied with some really good reading) SO. You were saying?
Tutor: What vowel makes the sound "eh?"
Marla (authoritatively now): Well, according to my BRAIN, it's E.
eh?
Posted by: e | February 09, 2007 at 07:15 PM