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That’s right. English is not a Romance language, so it’s based on more than just Latin and Greek.

Not from Vulgar Latin.

I always have my students put a line through it in a red marker because it's silent

The 'bossy/silent 'e'" pattern only works 50% of the time in our English language. It's a great pattern to teach kiddos to get them started, but there are just as many words that have that ending 'e' that serves a different purpose. In the cases of "done" and "come", those are considered irregular words to learn by sight. I recommend watching my video called "Know By Heart" strategy for the best way to teach those kinds of words. Thanks for watching!!

The key here to remember is that all ENGLISH words are built this way, and our language loves to bring in lots of slang and words that are not of English origin, OR the word has been shortened over time. For example, the word mini is shortened from the true word miniature. Paparazzi is an Italian word. Jacuzzi is actually the name of the Italian inventor of the spa. This is just the beginning of generalizations for rules of the English language! The next step is, whenever you find an exception, to go dig and find out why! I highly recommend the source: etymonline.com as a place to go to keep learning about the origins of a word and to learn how words are built. Great question and thanks for watching!!

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@@courtneybentley2089 what about the word 'stimuli' ?

@@vigilvijayan272 The words that end in "-us" from Latin origin would change to "i" when becoming plural. . If they are from the Greek, you would not pluralize them by changing the "-us" to "-i". There is a host of words that would change in this way due to this reason. Ex: Octopus/octopi, Cactus/cacti, etc.

@@courtneybentley2089this helps. Thanks for the reply. I was conducting a study on dyslexia and phonetic awareness.

Because give get and giggle there origin is German and not English

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G MAY change to the soft /j/ sound when following a 'i', 'e', or 'a'. G is the only phoneme that makes the hard /g/ sound so if that's the sound that's needed, you have to spell it that way. This is addressed in the video.

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“Give” and “gig” do not come from Vulgar Latin. The soft “c” and soft “g” sounds come from palatalizations of those letters in Vulgar Latin. Because English is not a Romance language, it doesn’t always have to do with Latin or Greek.

Hi! Thanks for watching. For a little one who is beginning with understanding language, you will want to concentrate not on letters, but SOUNDS. Read books with rhyming, play games that change words around, and expose them to lots of language. Here is a video of a routine with the 3-year old, so a little older than your baby, but you can get the idea. Notice that I do not use any letters---all sounds with their ears!! th-cam.com/video/QxN6BzyPW5Y/w-d-xo.html

Great question! When you start to dig, you are going to find all kinds of common words you use that end in u, i, j and v, but the key is that it means they are likely not English words. In your case, The word ski comes from the Old Norse word skíð which means "cleft wood", “stick of wood" or "ski". In Old Norse common phrases describing skiing were fara á skíðum (to travel, move fast on skis), renna (to move swiftly) and skríða á skíðum (to stride on skis). That’s an important part of teaching this rule to kids. ENGLISH words don’t end with those letters. When you find a word that does, it’s fun to go and find its history!!

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