magical
-from Stanley and the Wild Words
”Questions about words will lead you to magical places."
magical: related to magic; delightful.
Meaning?
Relatives? Etymology? mage + ic + al Old Persian magush _______________________________________________________________________“power” Morphological Relatives? Meet the family… magical: magic: magician: Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning. Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
magical à mage/ + ic + al
Structure?
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) . One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme).
It can be interesting to investigate how a grapheme may be represented by different phonemes across a word family.
Say the following words: magic, magical, magician. What phoneme does the grapheme <c> represent in each word?
Pronunciation?
Explain what the following quote means to you:
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
-Bertrand Russell
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****I also recommend highly Patti Bottino Bravo's "Fun with Phonetics" and advanced phonetics classes. Contact her for further information at speechteach28@gmail.com
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