Adam: Hey, sweetie. Come out from under the bed and have some snausages. Forget I said anything about a b-a-t-h. She spells, too? Clayton: Mostly hygiene-related words.
Any child or animal that learns that certain sounds (or combinations of sounds) are associated with unpleasant events can learn to associate either an actual word or a spelling with that event, if heard often enough. It doesn’t require an understanding of what spelling is; just that “b-a-t-h” has the same association as that shorter sound does.
QuietStorm27 almost 11 years ago
We’d all go blind if all of Adam’s clothes flew off!
katzenbooks45 almost 11 years ago
I have to spell d-o-g p-a-r-k around my two, or they’ll freak out until we actually go to the d-o-g p-a-r-k.
gocomicsmember almost 11 years ago
Any child or animal that learns that certain sounds (or combinations of sounds) are associated with unpleasant events can learn to associate either an actual word or a spelling with that event, if heard often enough. It doesn’t require an understanding of what spelling is; just that “b-a-t-h” has the same association as that shorter sound does.
Dani Rice almost 11 years ago
My dog used to go nuts over the word “ride”. Now he goes nuts over r-i-d-e.
pcolli almost 11 years ago
All I had to say to get my two English Cocker Spaniels to come running was, “Who wants…….?”