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*‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
‘Ten hours the first day,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘nine the next, and so on.’
‘What a curious plan!’ exclaimed Alice.
‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked: ‘because they lessen from day to day.’
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. ‘Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?’
‘Of course it was,’ said the Mock Turtle.
‘And how did you manage on the twelfth?’ Alice went on eagerly.
‘That’s enough about lessons,’ the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone.*
Well, it’s a fourth grade assignment according to the OP, and when I was in fourth grade, I may have been aware that accents existed, but certainly didn’t know that one of the main markers of accents in English is differences in vowels (e.g. some accents merge vowels, some swap them, etc.)
In my accent do and doo are [du:] and due and dew are both [dju:]. I didn’t know that for some people the dividing line falls between due and dew.
I pity the few who can’t find homophones.
Okay, now that this thread has received some serious replies, I know I can’t be the only one who read the thread title as “Homophobe Help…Need Answer Fast!”
I didn’t really mean it in terms of fully understanding the linguistics of accents, but rather “this is the list of 76 homophones kids are expected to learn this year” taken from a particular textbook, lesson plan, dictionary or whatever.
Kind of like my mom makes lists of “action words” or whatever and puts them on the wall of her classroom.
It would just suck to get graded down for listing do/dew/doo/due when the teacher doesn’t hear them as being the same and they aren’t on the list, that’s all. Though naturally a good teacher would give the benefit of the doubt and/or talk to the kid to hear why they made certain choices, it sadly cannot be expected from many teachers.
If its any consolation, I thought that as I typed out the thread title.
My son got a 100% on his assignment, by the way. Thanks guys!