Sounds of “e”

The letter “e” has two sounds called “long e” and ”short e” by those who make a living doing this stuff.

The “long e” is what you hear in words like “see”, “tea”, ”key” and “field”. The “long e” sound is typed with a single “e” but the “short e” sound in words like “fell” and “less” is not typed unless it at the beginning of the word. The exception is if the word has the prefix “ex“, then the letter “x” is substituted. Note that “ea” in a word like “bread” has the ”short e” sound and is thus omitted.

See if you can read the following sentences and check your answers in the next post.

1) i mst se t blev. (16 keyboard taps)

2) th brd a egs frm th stor wer vre xpnsiv. (38)

3) i ran thru th feld bcas i cud. (30)

By now you have guessed that stand alone letters in a sentence represent one or more very high frequency usage words. Check the next post ”Stand Alone Letter Meanings “.

Pretty soon I’m gonna explain my definitions for “word” and “syllable” to help you understand how to spell a word in ChuckLyn like it sounds.

Stay tuned.