{"id":8293,"date":"2012-07-20T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2012-07-20T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T03:33:24","slug":"knife-kitchen-and-the-correct-usage-of-alphabet-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=8293","title":{"rendered":"Knife, Kitchen and the correct usage of alphabet ‘K’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Ranjith C. Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n

S<\/strong>ome years back while serving as an Instructor in English at a Vocational Training Centre in a Middle-East Country, I encountered an experience perhaps unique to a Teacher of English.<\/p>\n

My students although they were adults and in their late teens, were quite unfamiliar with the English Language and its usage and could read with extreme difficulty.
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\nOne day a student read out from the Supplementary Reader \u2013 “My mother took the Knife (he pronounced the “K” and said kanife” I explained to him and the class that “K” was silent and that the word should be pronounced – “nife” as if the “K” was non-existent. The student was flabbergasted and blurted out the obvious logical protest. “But Sir, if you don\u2019t tell (pronounce) the “K”, why write it ? to which I had no explanation. “That\u2019s the way the language is ____” I wriggled out of this uneasy situation, and it was accepted more out of respect for the teacher than its plausibility.<\/p>\n

He continued to read “My mother took the knife (pronounced correctly this time) and went to the \u2013 itchen”. He did not pronounce the “K”. I interrupted him again to say, “Now in the word \u2018 Kitchen\u2019, you must pronounce the letter “K” . It is not silent there”<\/p>\n

There was a chorus of protests and indignation, and when calm was restored in the class my student pleadingly asked me- “This is a big problem Sir, when we read a sentence how we know what “K” to read, and what “K” not reading ?.<\/p>\n

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by Ranjith C. Perera Some years back while serving as an Instructor in English at a Vocational Training Centre in a Middle-East Country, I encountered an experience perhaps unique to a Teacher of English. My students although they were adults and in their late teens, were quite unfamiliar with the English Language and its usage …<\/p>\n

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