Subject: English Phonetics

My five-year old students are learning to read.
Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
‘Look at this! It’s a frickin’ elephant!’

I took a deep breath, then asked…’What did you call it?’

‘It’s a frickin’ elephant! It says so on the picture!’ ;

And so it does… (scroll to see)

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‘ A f r i c a n Elephant ‘

Hooked on phonics! Ain’t it wonderful?

Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.