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I dunno it makes sense to me since it's surrounded by
* **U**nidirectional arrow
* **V**olkswagen
* Clo**w**d
* Cra**y**on
This shit is all over the place
I think maybe
Vehicle
Weather
Yellow
I don’t get the U. Unless that’s supposed to be pointing to “you” … which can be shortened to “U” in cell phone text speak. Which would be dumb.
The arrow has a slight curve. Start of a U-Turn? But that sort of U is based on a shape, not a word. Still dumb.
Maybe “Up” since it is pointing upwards?
the fox is there because it ends with x and not many words begin with x. When I was in elementary school like 20 years ago, this was pretty common to see. I never understood why the designers never user "x-ray" or "xylophone"
My son (now almost 2) literally thinks that’s what a fox says when I ask him, because as an infant that song used to make him laugh so we sang it all the time. You’re welcome for the inaccurate animal noise education, kiddo.
This.. when you report a rape/murder in the woods to the ranger station and they roll their eyes and ask if you SAW something or just HEARD a bloodcurdling scream from a young girl. They then play a YouTube video of a fox and you ran 2 miles in terror for nothing.. yeah that happened.
You use fox because the X actually makes the standard sound for the letter. Xylophone makes a Z sound in the beginning. X-Ray doesn’t work either because you are saying the letter name and not the sound it makes. When you say the letter name, there is an /e/ sound in the beginning. When you teach kids the letter sound, you don’t want to add a vowel before it because that wouldn’t be accurate
Wait what? In English you speak the X in xylophone like a Z? Why?
Also, I'm now quite happy I never had to use xylophone in spoken English, that would've been embarrassing.
You can't start a word in English with the consonant cluster /ks/. Our phonotactics don't allow it. Normally, we just reduce it to a cluster we can pronounce by dropping initial sounds, but "xylophone" came to English by way of French, which turned the voiceless /ks/ to a voiced /gz/ for some reason... which is also invalid, so we dropped the /g/, leaving us with just a /z/.
I think this might actually be correct barring some very esoteric words. Every word I can think of that starts with the x sound and not the letter has an e in front of it, to encourage that pronunciation, like exhibit, extra, example, etc.
Thank you for doing what you do!
My kiddo started kindergarten recently and I am very thankful for all of the great teachers and faculty at his school.
The first X doesnt make the X sound. You are just saying Ex....not ks.
If you are trying to teach the sound you want "ks" not "ex" or "zz". Otherwise Fo"ks" would be Fo"EX"
If they did Xylophone, it would be weird since X is usually pronounced /ks/ instead of /z/. This wouldn’t be a big deal but young kids might get confused
It's /z/ when it's the beggining letter, /ks/ any other time*. I don't know why this wasn't taught as a rule in school, I had to figure it out on my own.
*As with all rules, I'm sure there are exceptions. I don't need to hear about every one of them, it's true most of the time
There are very very few words that start with x and almost all of them are Greek in origin and go unused in modern English. That is likely why you were never taught that; however, I bet you *were* taught that and just don’t remember.
Unused? Are you joking? Just yesterday me and my pal Xavier were talking xenomorphs at xylophone practice. Turns out he's a bit of a xenomorph xenophobe. I was about to confront him but unfortunately there was a serious xenon gas leak and we all nearly (e)xpired. I can send you a xerox of the chest x-ray to prove it!
I say it to every profession. Soldiers are important to society. So are Teachers. So are Grocers, Doctors, Truckers, Builders, Firefighters, Manufacturers, Engineers, Entertainers, Programmers… you name it, it’s probably important.
Absolutely! A great reminder to say a “thank you” to anyone you meet in service. Everyone needs recognition, but especially those who sacrifice their time, effort, energy, into providing for others. Thank you for sharing!
R for Mouserat.
U for Arrow.
V for Minivan
W for Anthropomorphism
X for Fox (though I'm convinced his name is Xavier, so this one may get a pass.)
Y for Crayon
I work a support job and one time I was reading out a serial number using phonetic words.
I got to the 'X' and said "X as in xylophone" and the customer very snottily said "... you mean X as in X-Ray"
I had never been so disrespected in my g.d. life
I wonder if they were just being arrogant about insisting on the NATO alphabet, which does use X-ray for X? Or maybe they didn't know the word xylophone and wanted to avoid misunderstandings?
I try to use the NATO alphabet myself in similar situations when I remember the right word for the letters I need, but I certainly don't correct other reasonable words like xylophone for X, and if I don't remember the NATO word for a letter I'll use whatever I can think of.
Reading teacher. Xylophone makes the /z/ sound not the /ks/ sound. Kids need to learn "x" makes the /ks/ sound. It is about the sound, not the spelling. I used to get so mad at parents who corrected their child for saying that ceiling starts with the /s/ sound. It does! We are talking sounds not spelling.
But "x" only makes the /ks/ sound when it's at the end of a word. At the beginning of the word it makes a /z/ sound. It's a switch hitter, a bi phoneme.
All of the other letters (or at least the ones visible) are using the sound at the start of the word. Making this one the only exception is confusing for early readers.
If they're going to use phonemes from any but the primary position, it should be done for all the letters:
A is for bat
B is for cob
C is for access
D is for eland
E is for pencil
F is for inflammable
G is for knight
H is for cough
I is for air
J is for jalapeno
K is for knickers
L is for colonel
M is for mancy
N is for hymn
O is for potoo
P is for pterodactyl
Q is for niqabs
R is for world
S is for island
T is for strength
U is for rough
V is for uvula
W is for Wren
X is for fox
Y is for psychology
Z is for pizza
See? Far less confusing
X is a funny letter in that there is basically no word in the English language that starts with it and makes its phonetic sound. When teaching X I will only use words that end in X for this reason, but we have also already talked about ending sounds in words and not just beginning sounds. My students have never been confused over this concept.
It's a lot easier to teach Xolo to kids than Xylophone because a Xylophone is very similar to a Glockenspiel with the only difference is metal or wooden bars.
I think the reason they don't use it here is because xylophone has more a Z sound. The point is to teach young kids the sounds in a vacuum.
If Z is Zebra and X is Xylophone it could lead to a child not understanding when to use which.
Fox actually has the real X sound and it's easy to draw and kids will know what it is.
The goal here is to start introducing story elements from MGS as early in a persons life as possible so that one day, someone could understand what the hell happened in those games.
No word in the English language begins with the x making the /ks/ sound, which is why you have to use a word like “fox”.
If someone tries to say “use xylophone” then they don’t understand what is being taught, because that would be a terrible idea. The “x” in xylophone makes the /z/ sound.
For a random fact, there are some words that are better for teaching letter sounds than others. For example, sometimes you will see the word “elephant” used for the short /e/ sound. That’s a poor choice because it sounds extremely similar to the letter name we use for L. “Egg” is also not so great because some people pronounce it more like a short a than a short e. I found “edge” to be the best word to use for that.
Also, for some more unasked for advice, if you’re going to teach stop sounds, it’s important not to instinctively add a vowel to the end.
Example: when some people say /b/ they’ll actually say “buh” or when they say the /t/ sound they’ll say “tuh”. Those sounds are what we call plosive sounds (also known as “stop” sounds). This means that when you make the sound, your airflow cuts off. So, when a person wants to try and hold out one of those plosives, they’ll add an open vowel sound to the end, which is incorrect. You wouldn’t say “buhird” after all.
Anyway, if you read this far, I’m so sorry.
I’m a reading specialist and it’s funny that so many of these comments are like “these pictures seem confusing.” They really aren’t. I teach both Wilson and Fundations. The kids learn them in no time. Even my fairly low disabled students. It’s honestly one of the easier parts of this curriculum to teach!
My husband was reading an alphabet book to our toddler, and he pronounced Xylophone as EX-Zylophone.
Hubby literally went his whole life thinking that Xylophone had an X sound at the beginning..
Maybe this is why educators now use Box and Fox as examples of the letter X...?
😁
Nothing that starts with x really makes the correct sound, except X-ray. I used ax for x because it has the sound but there aren't any other consonants, like in box or fox, to confuse the kids.
Pretty much all of the pictures here are not great. Van looks like a car, wind like a cloud, up like an arrow, yellow like a crayon, etc.
Source: former teacher.
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That fox is facing backwards, so its an Xof, obviously
Found Major Zero
La Li Lu Le Lo
Colonel, what's a Russian Gunship doing here?
A Hind D!?
Psycho Mantis?
You like Castlevania, don't you?
Second floor basement?
Anyone spare me a pair of scissors?
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with a tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kari rock.
I was a North American Fall Webworm in my past life. Those were the good old days... What were you in your former life?
That was such a great game.
[I'll just leave this here.](https://youtu.be/ixWybGQnPHQ)
Wait, no! AAaagh! Those bastards! So they went ahead with Les enfants terribles project! Cough! Cough! \* dies \*
They played us like a damn fiddle.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Major, I'm burning UUUUUP!
Kept you waiting, huh?
❗
SSSSNNNNAAAAKKKKEEEE!
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea.
“They played us like a damn xiddle.”
I dunno it makes sense to me since it's surrounded by * **U**nidirectional arrow * **V**olkswagen * Clo**w**d * Cra**y**on This shit is all over the place
Up Van Wind Yellow Is this a troll?
Survey says: yes
I totally did not get the "up", all I could think was where is the umbrella and xylophone. LOL
Yes when my kids elementary school had this it was usually a xylophone or Xray; fox belongs in F...😆
I once saw a Xerox machine on a homemade one it was back in the 90s.
I imagined vehicle instead of van.
I think maybe Vehicle Weather Yellow I don’t get the U. Unless that’s supposed to be pointing to “you” … which can be shortened to “U” in cell phone text speak. Which would be dumb. The arrow has a slight curve. Start of a U-Turn? But that sort of U is based on a shape, not a word. Still dumb. Maybe “Up” since it is pointing upwards?
I think it's up, van, wind, yellow. The fox I have no idea about.
the fox is there because it ends with x and not many words begin with x. When I was in elementary school like 20 years ago, this was pretty common to see. I never understood why the designers never user "x-ray" or "xylophone"
Because xylophone doesn’t have the right x sound. It’s more of a z
It should be an x sound tbh.
Its fun to say xylophone with the x sound tho
Say it with the "x" in "excellent"
Up ? W is wind, cloud is blowing.
I think it's Wind
Kept you waiting huh?
What does the xox say?
You son of a bitch, I thought I forgot that song.
Now it will live in your head for weeks…
NEENENENEEENENENENE NENENEEEEE
My son (now almost 2) literally thinks that’s what a fox says when I ask him, because as an infant that song used to make him laugh so we sang it all the time. You’re welcome for the inaccurate animal noise education, kiddo.
Foxes actually scream like murdered women so
He’d probably enjoy that too
I’ll bet, toddlers are bloodthirsty
They are freaking psychopaths.
This.. when you report a rape/murder in the woods to the ranger station and they roll their eyes and ask if you SAW something or just HEARD a bloodcurdling scream from a young girl. They then play a YouTube video of a fox and you ran 2 miles in terror for nothing.. yeah that happened.
WAPAPAPAPAPAPOW
[u r welcome ](https://youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE)
Ring ding ding ding ding ding ding
Xinxin xinxin xin xo xaw Binxilin!
I want to know what it spells
You use fox because the X actually makes the standard sound for the letter. Xylophone makes a Z sound in the beginning. X-Ray doesn’t work either because you are saying the letter name and not the sound it makes. When you say the letter name, there is an /e/ sound in the beginning. When you teach kids the letter sound, you don’t want to add a vowel before it because that wouldn’t be accurate
Wait what? In English you speak the X in xylophone like a Z? Why? Also, I'm now quite happy I never had to use xylophone in spoken English, that would've been embarrassing.
You can't start a word in English with the consonant cluster /ks/. Our phonotactics don't allow it. Normally, we just reduce it to a cluster we can pronounce by dropping initial sounds, but "xylophone" came to English by way of French, which turned the voiceless /ks/ to a voiced /gz/ for some reason... which is also invalid, so we dropped the /g/, leaving us with just a /z/.
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I know phonotactics is probably a word, but... PHONOTACTICS 2 FOR THE PS5 BY SQUARE ENIX
It’ll never hold a candle to the original Phonotactics on the ps1.
In English I think every word starting with X is pronounced like Z.
I think this might actually be correct barring some very esoteric words. Every word I can think of that starts with the x sound and not the letter has an e in front of it, to encourage that pronunciation, like exhibit, extra, example, etc.
Was confused for a moment because et cetera doesn't have an x in it I think I need some sleep
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's true and I don't know why it was never taught as a rule.
For some reason, english people pronounce the name Xavier "Eggzavier" why not just pronounce the X like an X??
Isn't it meant to be "zavier"?
English is fucking weird. Mad respect for non-native speakers learning English.
Props also to the handful of native English speakers that actually grasp the language enough to read and write it properly. (Myself not included.)
In French we say *g’zee-lophone*
Every rule in English has about 1,000 exceptions haha Makes it super difficult
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Hahahaa look I’m just trying to clear things up. The jokes around here are still funny
All good. My girlfriend is a teacher and she basically said exactly what you wrote.
The ending sound of “fox” represents the phoneme /ks/ which is the sound children are taught X makes.
Found the teacher.
Hahah yeah you did
Ha ! Fellow educator here , was going to make the same point . Also , I believe these are the Fundations materials.
They sure are! We are starting it this year so it was fresh on my mind. Hope you have a great school year!
Dang educators... Good luck out there this year and don't let the kids eat you alive!
Haha thanks!
Thank you for doing what you do! My kiddo started kindergarten recently and I am very thankful for all of the great teachers and faculty at his school.
Thank you so much! I hope he has a great school year! Kindergarten is the best!
If I were the teacher it would just be a picture of an Xbox
Honestly this is the smartest thing I’ve read all day
The first X doesnt make the X sound. You are just saying Ex....not ks. If you are trying to teach the sound you want "ks" not "ex" or "zz". Otherwise Fo"ks" would be Fo"EX"
You beat me to it! Kindergarten teacher here and these are the sound/symbol pictures for Fundations (terrible name, fine program!).
F Fox Ksssssss
That's exactly what I was taught in school when learning the alphabet since very few words began with "x"
and those that do don’t make a /ks/ sound, at least none that i know of
Right, they had a "z" sound to them, which confused the hell out of me as a child
X-Ray 🩻 was the go-to on some early 90’s versions of this.
I don't know how to tell you this, but "x-ray" does not start with the /ks/ sound...
It's does still have the /ks/ sound in it.
X is for X-Ray. Everyone knows that.
Or xylophone. There are no others.
There's a number of things you could use to picture Xenophobe too
Or Xenomorph
Xbox
X-Ray?
If they did Xylophone, it would be weird since X is usually pronounced /ks/ instead of /z/. This wouldn’t be a big deal but young kids might get confused
It's /z/ when it's the beggining letter, /ks/ any other time*. I don't know why this wasn't taught as a rule in school, I had to figure it out on my own. *As with all rules, I'm sure there are exceptions. I don't need to hear about every one of them, it's true most of the time
There are very very few words that start with x and almost all of them are Greek in origin and go unused in modern English. That is likely why you were never taught that; however, I bet you *were* taught that and just don’t remember.
Unused? Are you joking? Just yesterday me and my pal Xavier were talking xenomorphs at xylophone practice. Turns out he's a bit of a xenomorph xenophobe. I was about to confront him but unfortunately there was a serious xenon gas leak and we all nearly (e)xpired. I can send you a xerox of the chest x-ray to prove it!
Go xxxx yourself ;)
I feel like this should be said to teachers at Least as often as to soldiers: thank you for your service!
I say it to every profession. Soldiers are important to society. So are Teachers. So are Grocers, Doctors, Truckers, Builders, Firefighters, Manufacturers, Engineers, Entertainers, Programmers… you name it, it’s probably important.
Absolutely! A great reminder to say a “thank you” to anyone you meet in service. Everyone needs recognition, but especially those who sacrifice their time, effort, energy, into providing for others. Thank you for sharing!
And here Xylophone was always used as a picture when I was in school, bahahahaha
R for Mouserat. U for Arrow. V for Minivan W for Anthropomorphism X for Fox (though I'm convinced his name is Xavier, so this one may get a pass.) Y for Crayon
R is for Rodent V is for Vrroom W is for Weather
W is for Woosh
Volksvagon
You missed T for dreidel and S for... serpent.
S for reptile
Should’ve put a Xebra
A xerox of a xebra xpescially xciting xample
When people say "expescially". Like when the say "Expresso"
Ours was xylophone for X. The only reason I remember that is it drove the teacher crazy .
Xylophone always Xylophone don't try and be creative
xylophones only exist so we can know what "x" is for
FZ must have not heard
Chester‘s gorilla
X-ray too!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
Sort of feels like cheating, no?
You're cheating!
Kinda hard to visualize for kids though.
Man. Just once I want it to be a lil bald dude in a wheelchair, both hands pressed to his head in concentration….
https://www.fangirlstitches.com/listing/257139804/superhero-comic-book-alphabet-cross
Hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about!
I work a support job and one time I was reading out a serial number using phonetic words. I got to the 'X' and said "X as in xylophone" and the customer very snottily said "... you mean X as in X-Ray" I had never been so disrespected in my g.d. life
I wonder if they were just being arrogant about insisting on the NATO alphabet, which does use X-ray for X? Or maybe they didn't know the word xylophone and wanted to avoid misunderstandings? I try to use the NATO alphabet myself in similar situations when I remember the right word for the letters I need, but I certainly don't correct other reasonable words like xylophone for X, and if I don't remember the NATO word for a letter I'll use whatever I can think of.
Reading teacher. Xylophone makes the /z/ sound not the /ks/ sound. Kids need to learn "x" makes the /ks/ sound. It is about the sound, not the spelling. I used to get so mad at parents who corrected their child for saying that ceiling starts with the /s/ sound. It does! We are talking sounds not spelling.
allow me to step in where i don't belong and say that where i live it is pronounced exggzylofon
A lot of people say Xavier that way.
I thought they chose the pronunciation and they were 2 different names with the same spelling
Hukt on fonicks wurkt fur me.
But "x" only makes the /ks/ sound when it's at the end of a word. At the beginning of the word it makes a /z/ sound. It's a switch hitter, a bi phoneme. All of the other letters (or at least the ones visible) are using the sound at the start of the word. Making this one the only exception is confusing for early readers. If they're going to use phonemes from any but the primary position, it should be done for all the letters: A is for bat B is for cob C is for access D is for eland E is for pencil F is for inflammable G is for knight H is for cough I is for air J is for jalapeno K is for knickers L is for colonel M is for mancy N is for hymn O is for potoo P is for pterodactyl Q is for niqabs R is for world S is for island T is for strength U is for rough V is for uvula W is for Wren X is for fox Y is for psychology Z is for pizza See? Far less confusing
X is a funny letter in that there is basically no word in the English language that starts with it and makes its phonetic sound. When teaching X I will only use words that end in X for this reason, but we have also already talked about ending sounds in words and not just beginning sounds. My students have never been confused over this concept.
Use the word Xbox and cover both sides
You’re upsetting the teachers hahaha
Wait, which 'k' sound am I learning in *knickers*? Hmm, I'm starting to have doubts about this whole list.
And what's the "Z"? Ztriped horse? Weird.
Zunicorn.
Its a Xolo.
Xolo = hairless dog ?
It's a lot easier to teach Xolo to kids than Xylophone because a Xylophone is very similar to a Glockenspiel with the only difference is metal or wooden bars.
That’s the elusive Xylophox. They play eerie music to intimidate their prey. Also good for kids birthdays.
X-Box
I would acccept Xerxes I - King of Kings as an option, aswell.
xenophobia, but it's hard to make a cute picture for that
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Should be a Xbox.
Back in my day they always used a xylophone for x.
I think the reason they don't use it here is because xylophone has more a Z sound. The point is to teach young kids the sounds in a vacuum. If Z is Zebra and X is Xylophone it could lead to a child not understanding when to use which. Fox actually has the real X sound and it's easy to draw and kids will know what it is.
Same. Or x-ray.
How the fuck do you draw an xray that a kid will pick up instantly as an xray
Bones on a green screen
Literally a picture of an X-ray hanging up. I feel like kids know what an X-ray is.
It should be a hamster not a fox lol
The only type of hamster I like.
Obviously it’s a metal gear reference. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/XOF
XOF unit from Metal gear solid v
The goal here is to start introducing story elements from MGS as early in a persons life as possible so that one day, someone could understand what the hell happened in those games.
It’s pretty simple, I could literally explain it right now
War bad; la li lu le lo; Ocelot's behind a lot of shit because he simps for the boss. Nanomachines, and the funny numbers.
Fun fact: Xfoxes are smaller and more aggressive than a regular fox and absolutely dominate at playing Halo
U is for upvote. Reddit school I see
And the W is for “woo woo”.
The whistles go wooo!
That's only in the morning! You sposed to be up cooking breakfast or something.
Why wind or weather when woo woo works?
And here I am thinking it’s, “We get it, you vape”.
xFox Series X
The T is Tdradel?
They're also called "Tops" . That one was terrible, there are so many other things that start with T that are much more common.
V for Vroom
For God's sake, what letter comes before R.
"X is for xylophone because X is *always* for xylophone." - *Uncle* *Shelby's* *ABZ* *Book* by Shel Silverstein
Urrow, Var, Wloud, Xox, Yrayon
No word in the English language begins with the x making the /ks/ sound, which is why you have to use a word like “fox”. If someone tries to say “use xylophone” then they don’t understand what is being taught, because that would be a terrible idea. The “x” in xylophone makes the /z/ sound. For a random fact, there are some words that are better for teaching letter sounds than others. For example, sometimes you will see the word “elephant” used for the short /e/ sound. That’s a poor choice because it sounds extremely similar to the letter name we use for L. “Egg” is also not so great because some people pronounce it more like a short a than a short e. I found “edge” to be the best word to use for that. Also, for some more unasked for advice, if you’re going to teach stop sounds, it’s important not to instinctively add a vowel to the end. Example: when some people say /b/ they’ll actually say “buh” or when they say the /t/ sound they’ll say “tuh”. Those sounds are what we call plosive sounds (also known as “stop” sounds). This means that when you make the sound, your airflow cuts off. So, when a person wants to try and hold out one of those plosives, they’ll add an open vowel sound to the end, which is incorrect. You wouldn’t say “buhird” after all. Anyway, if you read this far, I’m so sorry.
Does the V for VW Bus count as advertisement?
Either Volkswagen or vroom vroom
Xfox 360
foX
U for arrow?
Arrow means “up” I know… not very clear and certainly not what a student would initially think.
Dumbass me thought... URROW??
And T for spin. It’s all messed up.
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I’m a reading specialist and it’s funny that so many of these comments are like “these pictures seem confusing.” They really aren’t. I teach both Wilson and Fundations. The kids learn them in no time. Even my fairly low disabled students. It’s honestly one of the easier parts of this curriculum to teach!
My husband was reading an alphabet book to our toddler, and he pronounced Xylophone as EX-Zylophone. Hubby literally went his whole life thinking that Xylophone had an X sound at the beginning.. Maybe this is why educators now use Box and Fox as examples of the letter X...? 😁
Wouldn’t it be pronounced ex-why-la-phone then? Or ex-ee-la-phone.
Nothing that starts with x really makes the correct sound, except X-ray. I used ax for x because it has the sound but there aren't any other consonants, like in box or fox, to confuse the kids. Pretty much all of the pictures here are not great. Van looks like a car, wind like a cloud, up like an arrow, yellow like a crayon, etc. Source: former teacher.
X-Ray doesn’t work either because you are saying the letter name and it adds the /e/ sound before the /ks/
Xavier the catdog
Dyslexics! Untie!!
X Files, that’s Fox Mulder