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Lawhon Color V

Class picks words for review

We had a very good class today.

Some of the lessons we learned:

• we aren't doing as well as we thought, especially in the differences between [aw] and [ah] 
• we are making some careless mistakes
• we need to practice diction and review the reasons why we miss things

Most commonly missed words on test:

• stall
• Lord
• call
• salt
• coffin
• quality

Recurring and frustrating errors:

• using [c] for [k]
• using [x] for [ks]
• remembering that a word that ends in [i] is usually modified to [I] if it is an unstressed syllable (quality)

One of the evolving lessons involves wisdom:

• sometimes, we make mistakes because of our particular dialect
• sometimes, we make mistakes because we out-think ourselves and modify everything to [ah]
• sometimes, diction sources (Wall textbook, private teachers, pronouncing dictionary) are at odds about proper pronunciations
• we have to learn to make the best choice 

Here are the words and ideas you submitted to me.  I will choose many of them for the re-test of Chapter five on Thursday, October 14.