{"id":505,"date":"2017-11-26T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-11-26T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T14:34:25","slug":"missing-letter-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Missing letter sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I thought about how many letters are pronounced like one of the vowels, so I made a list.<\/p>\n<p>In the first column is the vowel, a, e, i, o and u, and following them are the letters that are sounded out by that vowel.<\/p>\n<p>E gets the overwhelming majority. A and O get nothing but themselves.<\/p>\n<pre>a a j k \r\ne b c d e g p t v z\r\ni i y\r\no o\r\nu q u w<\/pre>\n<p>But what about the missing letters:<\/p>\n<pre>f h l m n r s x<\/pre>\n<p>What makes them so special?<\/p>\n<p>And the sounds that don&#8217;t even have letters, like th.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s probably lots of language people and phoneme people who&#8217;ve worked all this out but I just noticed it today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I thought about how many letters are pronounced like one of the vowels, so I made a list. In the first column is the vowel, a, e, i, o and u, and following them are the letters that are sounded out by that vowel. E gets the overwhelming majority. A and O get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}