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72 Memory words: These common words do not follow our Easy-To-Read system. They are difficult to otherwise analyze phonetically. The best way to learn them is by simple memorization.
Words are bold on the left in each column. Speech sound notation is on the right.
a .........../aa/
a ........../u/
ace .....aa/s
age .....aa/j
any .....e/n/ee
both ...b/oo/th
bush ..b/uuh/sh
come .c/u/m
could .c/uuh/d
do .......d/uu
does ..d/u/z
done .d/u/n
even ..ee/v/e/n		 eye ........../ii/
father ......f/o/th/er
find ..........f/ii/n/d
flu ............f/l/uu
foot .........f/uuh/t
from ........f/r/u/m
front .........f/r/u/n/t
full ...........f/uuh/l
go ...........g/oo
ho ............h/oo
I ................/ii/
I’m ............ii/m
into ..........i/n/t/uu
 like ............l/ii/k
lose ..........l/uu/z
love ..........l/u/v
made .......m/aa/d
make .......m/aa/k
many .......m/e/n/ee
mother ....m/u/th/er
no .............n/oo
none ........n/u/n
of ..............u/v
oh ............./oo/
old ...........oo/l/d
once ........w/u/n/s 		one ...............w/u/n
own ..............oo/n
people ..........p/ee/p/u/l
pull ................p/uuh/l
push .............p/uuh/sh
pussy ...........p/uuh/s/ee
put .................p/uuh/t
said ...............s/e/d
should .........sh/uuh/d
so ..................s/oo
some ............s/u/m
son ................s/u/n
the .................thh/ee		 their ...........thh/air
there ..........thh/air
they ............thh/aa
time .............t/ii/m
to .................t/uu
two ..............t/uu
use ..............y/uu/z
want ...........w/o/n/t
war ..............w/or
was .............w/u/z
water ..........w/aw/t/ur
what ............w/u/t
who .............h/uu		 whose ......h/uu/z
word .........w/ur/d
work ..........w/ur/k
would ........w/uuh/d
write ...........r/ii/t
you .............y/uu
your............ y/or

31 MORE MEMORY WORDS
“a”: has an /ah/ sound at the end of these 7 short words: bra, fa, ha, la, ma, pa & ska
“y”: has an /ii/ sound at the end of these 17 short words: by, cry, dry, fly, fry, my, ply, pry, shy, sky, sly, spy, sty, thy, try, why & wry.
“ e”: has an /ee/ sound at the end of these 7 short words: be, he, me, she, the, we, ye.

Numerals and Keyboard Symbols
We allow using keyboard symbols as words (1, 2, 3 ... to whatever -- also +, -, x, <, >, %, $, ?, & and =).

In other words, we can write a sentence such as “2 + 2 = 4”, or “7 < (6 + 2)”, or “Is 6 the sum of 2 + 3?”.