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Irina Rempt wrote:

> When our eldest daughter was learning to write she used
> to spell "oog" (eye) correctly, but "oor" (ear) as "ooer"
> because she heard the shwa-like glide between the /o/ and
> the /r/. We think she should be a phoneticist when she
> grows up :-)
Reminds me. When my sister was a preschooler, she'd been
told that the letter 'a' was a tadpole-like 'o' with a tail,
so she drew it like O~~~~.