Why does 'get squiggling' use 'aye, bee, cee' and alphablocks use 'ah, buh, kuh' ?

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Is it cos get squiggling isn't using the correct sounds as per the Phonics ? I have no idea, cos my eldest is only 3. But he is starting to be interested in letters. And I have been trying to tell him the alphablock type sounds. But then get squiggling comes on and confuses the situation!

JollyOrangeGiant what have capitals got to do with sounds and letter names ?

learnandsay I am not making up anything ... as suggested earlier try looking up acronym ... RSPCA is not a word!

You can make an utterance such as a sceem or a moan and they aren't words either.

"So the closer vowels are to each other, the more likely that is to make one of them say their name?"

As you know Euphemia vowel proximity has nothing to do with the sound represented by a spelling ...think about head and bread and soup and laugh and bear and friend and because and chief and hundreds of other words learnandsay

they aren't exceptions just alternative spellings often based on word origins.

Don't tell me, tell the dictionary compilers. At the moment that is the definition of a word.

learnandsay it is you who has the problem not the dictionary compilers

From 4 separate dictionaries

Word-
A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown...

Word -
A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.

word
[wurd] Show IPA
noun

a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning

noun

a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed:

They look fine to me.

and none of the definitions of word would apply to RSPCA, UN or TFL ...

learnandsay has a rather unique view of reading and spelling Euphemia

and why would they not apply?

steppemum, apart from koi, or poi.

Its ah, bue, kuh at nursery/skool

Because R.S.P.C.A. represents separate words and is said as a series of initials not as a word on the other hand N.A.S. A is a said as a word using the sounds represented by the letters.

That's not what your definitions are saying. Your definitions are pointing to a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, a sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing

TFL, RSPCA, NFL are exactly that and they have commonly understood meanings too. Other interpretations of them are still true too. But they do not negate the qualities listed above.

It is exactly what the definitions are saying learnandsay

The pronoun 'I' is a word where the letter says its name...

(And is always capitalised - try having to remind year 7s...in a grammar school...everyday...you will soon lose the will to live.)

RSPCA UN and TFL can not be said as a single distinct unit of speech RSPCS has five separate units, UN has two separate units and TFL has three NASA can be said as a single unit and is therefore a word/acronym whereas your three examples are not words.

OK, so you can't understand your own dictionary definitions. Maybe you could think a little bit about how a [spoken] series of initials is
a combination of sounds, which is in one of your definitions of a word.

Letters don't say anything ... people speak letters are just symbols.

I can understand perfectly well learnandsay but it appears you can't.

RSPCA is said as Arr, Ess, Pee, See, Ay 5 separate units of speech not one single unit therefore not a word. UN is said as Yoo En two separate units of sound therefore not a word NASA is said exactly as it is written therefore a word.

From your definition:

"a combination of sounds"

how would you get one of those without speaking?

two separate units of sound therefore not a word

syllables are units of sound so, donkey is not a word either according to that interpretation!

Perhaps you would like to take that up with Oxford English dictionary compilers as you suggested I do.

syllables do not carry meaning in isolation only when combined to make a word ...

Why would I? I'm perfectly happy for words to have separate units of sound in them. The longest place name in Welsh has got plenty of units of sound in it (believe me, I can say it!) But I'm not denying its right to be called a word on that account.