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== Lesson Fourteen ==
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=== The Consonant Sound ===
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A '''sandbox''' is a ], a wide, shallow playground construction to hold sand, often made of wood or plastic.


'''Sandbox''' or '''sand box''' may also refer to:
1 You can hear the sound at the front and end of the word ''toot''. Underline letters that spell :


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about after better account
country perfect didn't different
itself great kitten bottle
starter little rabbit sister
vote today fruit setting
hotter bottom until cannot


== Arts, entertainment, and media==
2 Now sort the words into these two groups:
* ], a Canadian rock music group
* ], 1987
* ], 2006, or the title track
* ], an experimental theatre group in Minneapolis, Minnesota
* ], a 1960 one-act play by Edward Albee
=== Video gaming ===
* ], a genre or ''mode'' of some video games for open-ended, nonlinear play
* ], a 2012 game for mobile phones
* ], an in-development game by Facepunch Studios
* ], a computer- and video-game developer
* ], a metaverse platform developer
* ], a game level editor for ''Far Cry''


== Computing ==
'''Words with spelled ...'''
* ], a virtual container in which untrusted programs can be safely run
* ], an environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system
* ], in Google Internet search rankings


== Other uses==
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* ], a device to remove centring
* ], a container that holds sand for use in improving rail adhesion in slippery conditions
* ] or SS-N-12, a Soviet anti-ship missile
* Sandbox, a container for ], used before the invention of blotting paper
* ], a tool used by child psychologists
* Sandbox tree, the evergreen species '']'' of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), also known as possumwood and jabillo, native to tropical regions in the Americas


==See also==
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* ], an indoor sandbox, usually filled with kitty litter, in which house pets are trained to relieve themselves
* ], an OS-level virtualization|operating system-level virtualization program


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3 Two ways of spelling the sound are ''<t>'' and ''<tt>''

Underline the letters that spell , , and :

surprise important help. appear
about hobby because bridge
prevent between bottle ribbon

5 Sort the words into these three groups:

'''The words with ...'''

''' spelled <p>'''

''' spelled <math><b></math>'''

''' spelled <t>'''

''surprise about important''

''important because about''

''help bridge prevent''

''prevent between between''

''bottle''
6 '''The word with spelled <pp>'''

''appear''

7 '''The word with spelled <tt>'''

''bottle''
8 The two words with spelled <math><bb></math>
''hobby ribbon''

9 Two ways of spelling are ''<p>'' and ''<pp>''

10 Two ways of spelling are <math><b></math> and <math><bb></math>

11 Two ways of spelling are ''<t>'' and ''<tt>''

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'''Word Pyramids'''. In a Word Pyramid you pile shorter words on top of longer ones to form a pyramid. We give you the bottom and longest word. Your job is to take one letter away from that word and rearrange the letters to form a new word that is one letter shorter than the one below it. You keep doing that until you get to the top.

In the Word Pyramid below, each word must contain the sound spelled <t>. The only three-letter word you can make out of ''vote'' is ''toe'', which does contain <t> and goes right above ''vote''. The only two-letter word you can make from ''toe'' is ''to.'' The only one-letter word with <t>, is ''T'', which is short for "tee shirt" and is also used in the phrase, "My new bicycle suits me to a T." Thus, the filled-out Pyramid would look like the following:

T
T 0
T 0 E
V 0 T E

In the Pyramid below, you can make more than one four-letter word that contains spelled <t>: ''rate, tear'', and ''gate''. Either one of them could go right above ''great'' in the Pyramid. Here is one solution. What other solution can you think of? Remember that each word must contain the sound spelled <t>:

T
A T
E A T
R A T E
G R E A T

T
A 7
7 A G
G A 7 E
G R E A T
Here is another Pyramid with words that contain spelled <t>:

T
A T
F A T
F A T E
A F T E R

'''Teaching Notes.'''
1. About 95٪ of the time is spelled <t>, and nearly 99٪ of the time it is either <t> or <tt>. But after that fine start things get rather complicated, as lessons 21-24 and 26-31 of Book Four spell out. As a quick preview, consider the different spellings of in, say, ''kissed'', ''Thomas, thyme, doubt, debt'', ''pterosaur, receipt, indict, veldt, fought, yacht, and two!''

2. If you listen carefully to your students', or perhaps your own, pronunciation of the words in Item 1 of the lesson that contain <t> or <tt>, you may detect a sound in some of them more like than . This pronunciation is most common in words like ''hotter'', ''little,'' ''gotten, better'', ''bottle'', and ''setting'' or like ''later'' and ''plating''. The pattern here is that if the <t> or <tt> has a stressed vowel right in front of it and an unstressed vowel right after it, it tends to become something in between and that linguists call a flap-. The word ''flap'' is meant to indicate that it is a sound somewhat quicker than a full . Technically, what is happening is that the , which is normally a voiceless sound (that is, pronounced with no vibration of the vocal cords), picks up some voicing (or vibration of the vocal cords) from the surrounding vowels, which are voiced. (In less technical terms, we tend to start the cords buzzing with the preceding vowel and just keep them buzzing through the following vowel, rather than turning them on, then off for the , then on again.) Since is the voiced counterpart of the voiceless , the result is a pronunciation of that sounds like . Most desk dictionaries show the sound spelled <t> and <tt> in such words as , ignoring the flap- pronunciation. But Webster's Third International Unabridged gives both and as pronunciations for them.
This technical point is obviously not something to inflict on youngsters. It is mentioned here simply to encourage you to resist any temptation you may have to correct the pronunciation of students who seem to have more of a than a in their pronunciation of such words. They have Webster's Third and professional linguists on their side! Also, it is remotely possible that a student may notice the variation and ask about it. In case of such an astonishing event, I recommend that you praise the student for having a good ear, indeed, and explain that it is true that in such words as hotter and the others the can begin to sound more like a , but that since the spelling is <t> or <tt>, we (and most dictionaries) choose to treat the pronunciation as a . For more on
© D. W. Cummings, August 6, 1998
the flap-, see AES, pp. 338-39, and for the related flap-, see AES, pp. 342-43. (The flap- is the thing that can sneak in between the and the of, say, sense, causing it to rhyme with cents.)
Word Pyramids. There are different legitimate solutions to most Word Pyramids. The minimum requirements are that each word used must be listed in a reputable dictionary and must contain the target spelling feature. For instance, in the last Pyramid above, the following four-letter words with <t> can be spelled from the letters in after, fate, feat, feta, frat, raft, rate, tare, tear. (You can decide how to handle the unfortunate possibility fart.) All of these four-letter words contain three-letter words that in turn contain two-letter words—fat, rat, and aft, for instance. So all eight can lead to legitimate solutions. But after also contains the less-common four-letter <t> words fret, reft, and tref, each of which contains only the three-letter <t> words eft and ret. Neither eft nor ret contains any two-letter words that contain <t>. So fret, reft, and tref cannot lead to a solution.
Notice that in those Pyramids that require each word to contain a specific letter, the top space must always be that specific letter. Dictionaries treat all letters as if they were words, giving their pronunciations, plural forms, and parts of speech.
© D. W. Cummings, August 6, 1998

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