You want to know something I feel sort of sorry for? Too bad, I’m going to tell you anyway. It’s the letter T. It gets a raw deal many times.<\/p>\n
Think about it. It has such a strong presence when it begins the word. Ton, two, twin, even words like “there” have the\u00a0unmistakable\u00a0T sound. Those two sounds can only be made by T. What happens when T appears in the middle, or at the end of a word. The sound becomes smaller, in some cases it can disappear. Say the number 20 to yourself. How does it come out. Most of the time, it sounds more like Twen-ty<\/small> instead of Twen-Ty. I gloss over T a lot if it isn’t at the beginning of a word.<\/p>\n
Listening to some people around me, T can be eliminated entirely. Button becomes “buh-en”. As important as T is (I’ve used it 68 times up to this point, not counting the stand-alone Ts), it is softened or ignored when it doesn’t hold a prominent position.<\/p>\n
As silly as that may sound, I notice the same in my life. My “notice-ability” grows and shrinks based on where I stand. If I’m out in front, I know people are watching, and I change how I act. I become more formal because I don’t want people to think I’m an idiot. I can be myself more easily if people aren’t watching.<\/p>\n
Holding my craziness to a minimum around others isn’t always a problem, but if I start being two-faced, it is a problem.<\/p>\n
Not telling every pun that runs through my head is a nice thing to do for others. Pretending I’m a stronger Christian than I really am is flat out lying. I would do well watch who I follow. The letter T isn’t a very good role model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You want to know something I feel sort of sorry for? Too bad, I’m going to tell you anyway. It’s the letter T. It gets a raw deal many times. Think about it. It has such a strong presence when it begins the word. Ton, two, twin, even words like “there” have the\u00a0unmistakable\u00a0T sound. Those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}