CL Worksheet
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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” 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 clamp clap claws clay climb
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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 were an "O" that had been 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 job 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 each other's 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. My Mandarin is improving rapidly.
Transcript of CL Worksheet
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PMPage - 1
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
clamp
clap
claws
clayclimb
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PMPage - 2
clover clubscloven hoof
clove
clarinet
club
golf club
cliff
cleft
Parially cut, or the thing that
cuts, is what “cl” is about.
Words beginning with “cl”
cleaver
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PMPage - 3
clever
clods of dirt
cloak
clearclean
clothesclothes closet
cloudClothes clothe one with cloth, but one pronounces “clothes” as “cloze,” perhaps because they enclose one’s body. “Clod” and “clever” are conceptual opposites, as are “cloudy” and “clear.”
clown
Words beginning with “cl”
Made for the Lao Family Center by Jennifer Ball, © November 7, 2012; rev. December 8, 2012 3:07 PMPage - 4
A _ _assroom is where students learn. A health
_ _inic is where patients get better.
Sometimes “global warming” is called “_ _imate change.”
A _ _ipboard is where a sign-up sheet might be kept.
What other words start with “cl”?
A_ _ock keeps track of time
with a _ _icking sound, _ _ipping our lives shorter
each second.
