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counterlife's avatar

To be fair, Marge's mispronunciation may be less caused by her illiteracy and more by her obvious obsession with dicks. Hunter Biden's dick in particular.

(All I can say is it's a good thing for Marge, and most members of the "Freedumb Caucus" that breathing does not require rational thought.)

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M McConlogue's avatar

Reading teacher (retired) here. This is what you get when you throw out Whole Language and focus only on phonics instruction, as Georgia has.

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Mary Hall's avatar

The word "phonics" doesn't even start with an 'F'. This is why aliens fly right past us.

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Yup, here in good ole P-ho-E-nix, we get it!

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Robert R's avatar

No wonder the kids donтАЩt no wat the phuk iz hapnin round the kuntree!

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Bonnie's avatar

ЁЯШнЁЯШЕЁЯдг

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M McConlogue's avatar

A+ for you in fa-nix!

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M McConlogue's avatar

Fee-nix?

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M McConlogue's avatar

Beautiful! One of my students pointed this out also.

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Robert R's avatar

Since kindergarten I have always wondered about Fonics with the ph ?? wtf ?

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M McConlogue's avatar

Blame the Phonecians.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Haha!! ЁЯСНЁЯП╗

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Bonnie's avatar

ЁЯШЕЁЯШнЁЯШнЁЯЩМЁЯдг

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Claudia Green's avatar

Hey they threw out phonics as well, and turned it into some kind of exploratory guessing games.

The rules of phonics work a lot of the time. It is not fool proof though.

Whole Language? Is that writing and reading with phonics? My kids did that in the 1990тАЩs. They were writing in kindergarten.

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M McConlogue's avatar

Yes. It puts the fun back into learning.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

She's an erec-tion-ist.

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Charlotte Thompson's avatar

I think that Marge would like to have one of her own.

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Bonnie's avatar

ЁЯОпЁЯТп

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Bonnie's avatar

Anaconda envy

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Rick Bonin's avatar

HunterтАЩs dick lives in her head rent-free.

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