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I love that she spells tree as chree. In linguistics class once, we had to write out a bunch of words using the phoenitic alphabet. The word was elementary. I wrote (well, in phonetics, but since I can't really do that on a normal keyboard, I'll just spell it) el-um-en-chree. The TA marked me as wrong, but when I complained to the teacher, he agreed my answer was also right and changed my score (giving me 100%, haha). Most people insist that tree really does have a T in it, and I can't get people to even consider that it might really sound like a ch, if you can just GET OVER the spelling! So I think Ana is wonderful and I completely agree with her.

On another note, because you have lots of experience with and knowledge about the linguistic stuff, and learning to write: Kira is just starting to write, with prompting. When she writes her name in mirror image, do I say, "Wow, your letters are so neat and even!" or "That looks great, but it is backwards" or something else? Nothing? What about when Ana spells a word Tiyrd. Do you also tell her the correct way to spell it, or do you just approve of her effort and say nothing?