SweetSue92
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The crushing pressure of teaching 6 year olds to play Three Blind Mice on kazoos.
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You're so ignorant about what we do you think we have kazoos. I mean
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The crushing pressure of teaching 6 year olds to play Three Blind Mice on kazoos.
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"Fail"? There is no fail. Parents will come watch their kids play the recorder badly no matter how they do it.
My wife and I (and my parents) eagerly attended a performance of my oldest playing the violin when he was younger. We all laugh about it now. We're hoping the youngest will start the piano soon.It's sad that you don't know how ignorant you look in all this. Ignorant, petty and small. But keep going
Why would you laugh about having gone to see your offspring perform? Was it that bad?My wife and I (and my parents) eagerly attended a performance of my oldest playing the violin when he was younger. We all laugh about it now. We're hoping the youngest will start the piano soon.
Why would you laugh about having gone to see your offspring perform? ...
Because it was bad and he hated it. He only stuck with it for a while to make his mom happy. Tremendous waste of money, as I'm fairly sure the piano will be for his little brother. They are natural born wrestlers.
...I have so much to say about that, but will refrain until you dare to take a swipe at my profession again.
Returning to your interesting OP, I think we shouldn't get too fanatical about most cultural changes in dialect, pronunciations, etc. in our English language and allow for regional differences.I remember when I was in early schooling. A lot of effort went into teaching us that the "T" in "often" was silent. Why do so many people now pronounce the word often as off-ten? We know a lot of people cannot read nowadays, but does this mean they have forgotten how to speak as well?
You have to remember that regardless of what word in English you say, you're dealing with various dialects of English, whether it's actual British English, Northeast United States English pronunciation, Southern United States pronunciation and Midwest and Western United States pronunciation. Wherever you are in the United States, you are influenced by that English teacher's dialect when they teach you words. Where I grew up as a kid, when it came to the word "often," the "t" was pronounced. In British Cockney, you for sure wouldn't hear the "t" in the word.I remember when I was in early schooling. A lot of effort went into teaching us that the "T" in "often" was silent. Why do so many people now pronounce the word often as off-ten? We know a lot of people cannot read nowadays, but does this mean they have forgotten how to speak as well?
Ironically it’s because people can read that a word like often is pronounced with the T.I remember when I was in early schooling. A lot of effort went into teaching us that the "T" in "often" was silent. Why do so many people now pronounce the word often as off-ten? We know a lot of people cannot read nowadays, but does this mean they have forgotten how to speak as well?
Height being mispronounced as heigh-th is likely a result of seeing the letters t and h together at the end. Or, more likely, as a complementary word to width which does have the th at the end.Height is another one. It's pronounced like tight, not like ninth.
Oh, I dare..... I have so much to say about that, but will refrain until you dare to take a swipe at my profession again.
Hit the speaker symbol, the T is silent -that website is wrong. you do pronounce the T in often.
I pronounce the T in often. if you say often fast, the T would be silent.Hit the speaker symbol, the T is silent -
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English is weird because everyone I know says 'Mornin'. I had an ex-boss who always said 'Morning', emphasis on -ing. Always sounded odd.I pronounce the T in often. if you say often fast, the T would be silent.