THIS IS SO AWESOME!

[conuly]

1. Did I mention my consternation when I heard Ana saying "Awesome" all the time? I couldn't figure out where she picked it up, and then I discovered that it was from me. *I* say it all the time!

2. I was typing when Evangeline woke up, and she sat next to me and wanted to type too. So I asked her what word. Then I sounded the words out letter by letter and showed her the general area (row and half-of-keyboard) the letter was in - and she found the letters (the rrr letter or the sss letter) herself! COOL.

3. Then we did Starfall. We did M. One of the ones on M was mask. So I asked her "What do you think this is?" "Zombies?" So I sounded it out. Mmm. Aaaah. Sssss. K-k-k. Maaah. Sss. K. And she got it! "MAX!" The next one was masks. How does she say masks? "MAXES!" Maxes is a very consistent way to pluralize max, but of course mask isn't max. I find this inexplicably interesting, even though it's not actually. (Evangeline did the typing with help for this again. IS IT NOT TOTALLY AWESOME??? TELL HER AND ME HOW AWESOME IT IS!


i luv ana! ana luvs me!

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[conuly]

But at any rate, just to drag us back to the post (not that your comment isn't interesting in its own right) I wasn't surprised that she says max for mask - you're right, sk at the end of the word is a fairly unusual combination, which is why I could list them off so easily. Nor am I actually surprised that she pluralized it regularly for her pronunciation.

I'm just pleased that she's internalized the special rule for making plurals of words that end in x.