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    An analysis of the "cl" consonant blend and the implications for the meanings of words that begin with the blend. Using sound as a mnemonic, vocabulary can be more easily retained when recognizing the relationship that words share when they start with the same phoneme. Considering the general concepts of each word allows one to perceive the often metaphorical relationship that words have which begin with the same sound: a cleaver is sharp. So is clever. The shape of the letter "C" is significant to the meaning of the words. It has two edges, like a clamp. A "C"—both upper and lowercase—looks as if it was "O" that was cut by a cleaver—or an "l" perhaps. Thinking of the shapes of the letters as pictures is linguistic blasphemy, but in order to understand ourselves, we need to examine every taken-for-granted tenet to see what we have shoved under the rug in our refusal to recognize our animalistic, predictable behavior. There is meaning on the letter level, just like there is something smaller than the atom, even though no one believed it for a long time. The letters are there and visible. If we want to see what they code for, all we have to do is consider all the words that contain them: a big bunch admittedly, so I start smaller, with words that begin with the same consonant blend. There is congruence. We are simpler than we realize. But in recognizing this, we could learn other languages faster. I'm moving to China to teach English February 2013. I'll be my second data point after my son, who went up 40 points in English on the SSAT after I had this idea.

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    An analysis of the "cl" consonant blend and the implications for the meanings of words that begin with the blend. Using sound as a mnemonic, vocabulary can be more easily retained when recognizing the relationship that words share when they start with the same phoneme. Considering the general concepts of each word allows one to perceive the often metaphorical relationship that words have which begin with the same sound: a cleaver is sharp. So is clever. The shape of the letter "C" is significant to the meaning of the words. It has two edges, like a clamp. A "C"—both upper and lowercase—looks as if it was "O" that was cut by a cleaver—or an "l" perhaps. Thinking of the shapes of the letters as pictures is linguistic blasphemy, but in order to understand ourselves, we need to examine every taken-for-granted tenet to see what we have shoved under the rug in our refusal to recognize our animalistic, predictable behavior. There is meaning on the letter level, just like there is something smaller than the atom, even though no one believed it for a long time. The letters are there and visible. If we want to see what they code for, all we have to do is consider all the words that contain them: a big bunch admittedly, so I start smaller, with words that begin with the same consonant blend. There is congruence. We are simpler than we realize. But in recognizing this, we could learn other languages faster. I'm moving to China to teach English February 2013. I'll be my second data point after my son, who went up 40 points in English on the SSAT after I had this idea.

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    "CL" Worksheet

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    Jennifer Ball
    An analysis of the "cl" consonant blend and the implications for the meanings of words that begin with the blend. Using sound as a mnemonic, vocabulary can be more easily retained when recognizing the relationship that words share when they start with the same phoneme. Considering the general concepts of each word allows one to perceive the often metaphorical relationship that words have which begin with the same sound: a cleaver is sharp. So is clever. The shape of the letter "C" is significant to the meaning of the words. It has two edges, like a clamp. A "C"—both upper and lowercase—looks as if it was "O" that was cut by a cleaver—or an "l" perhaps. Thinking of the shapes of the letters as pictures is linguistic blasphemy, but in order to understand ourselves, we need to examine every taken-for-granted tenet to see what we have shoved under the rug in our refusal to recognize our animalistic, predictable behavior. There is meaning on the letter level, just like there is something smaller than the atom, even though no one believed it for a long time. The letters are there and visible. If we want to see what they code for, all we have to do is consider all the words that contain them: a big bunch admittedly, so I start smaller, with words that begin with the same consonant blend. There is congruence. We are simpler than we realize. But in recognizing this, we could learn other languages faster. I'm moving to China to teach English February 2013. I'll be my second data point after my son, who went up 40 points in English on the SSAT after I had this idea.

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    Words beginning with cl

    The sound cl implies two or more things that cluster together because they are very close. They might share a hinge or symmetry or stickiness.

    clams clap clamp

    claws

    climb

    clay

    Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PM Page - 1

    Words beginning with cl

    Parially cut, or the thing that cuts, is what cl is about.

    cliff

    cleaver clarinet golf club

    cleft

    clove

    club

    clover

    cloven hoof

    clubs

    Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PM Page - 2

    Words beginning with cl

    clever clods of dirt

    clown clothes closet clothes

    cloud clear

    clean

    cloak Clothes clothe one with cloth, but one pronounces clothes as cloze, perhaps because they enclose ones body. Clod and clever are conceptual opposites, as are cloudy and clear.

    Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PM Page - 3

    What other words start with cl?

    A _ _assroom is where students learn. A health _ _inic is where patients get better. A _ _ipboard is where a sign-up sheet might be kept.

    Sometimes global warming is called _ _imate change.

    A_ _ock keeps track of time with a _ _icking sound, _ _ipping our lives shorter each second.

    Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PM Page - 4

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