A calmness finally returns

After several weeks of feeling like I've been pummelled with information and falling behind, I'm back in the saddle again. I spent the weekend going back over the chapters that were troubling me and it paid off. I achieved a 98% on tonight's quiz ~ yay!

So moving forward with today's chapter was much easier. Chapter 32 is about words beginning with U, UN and UNDER. UN and UNDER are easy.

The U is a little tricky. Using the single letter U is out of the question. That is reserved for the shortcut of the word "you". When you spell out the word "you" it's YAOU ~ and that's what you write when starting words like unanimous, united, or utensil. When the long u sound is followed by a consonant sound in the same syllable, you include it with the long u sound. An example of this would be the word "urethane". Written out in steno, it looks like this: YAOUR/THAIN

With a little practice, I think this will come naturally.