[lit-ideas] Re: conference on hypothesis testing
- From: John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:29:03 -0500
Donal McEvoy wrote:
Try all you like but they seem hellbent on examining 'What is it like to be the
only gay in the village and use 'w' as a vowel?',
When I was in second grade, I distinctly remember being taught the
vowels by making a hand-outline on my newsprint paper and writing
A-E-I-O-U on all the finger tips, and then writing W and Y on the heel
of the hand. But years later, I realized that only "Y" was REALLY a
vowel, and couldn't see why in the world I had remembered both W and Y.
Was it my first confirmed faulty memory example? Was I mis-taught in
Pennsylvania? Was there some secret that only my second grade teacher
knew that nobody else knew? My "hypothesis" is that there is a problem
somewhere; this is fairly easy to test, at least. But now you have
given me a new hypothesis to test: Perhaps my second
grade teacher was Welsh!!! Or at least realized English included the
possibility of using "W" as a vowel, in some localities? Is "W" really
a vowel in Welsh? Or is this also just some kind of weird dream from my
past?
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