I have a question today about the spelling  

o m e. How do we say this this  can get a little confusing.  

Spelling rules would tell us that when you have  the e at the end of a word the vowel before it  

is going to be long and the e will be silent. So  if we're following that rule, which works most  

of the time, we would have home gnome chrome and  dome. So how do we say this? We're going to say  

o. O O. Open your mouth, move to a pucker, and  then close your lips for that m. OME. OME. OME.

My tongue is moving from low in the mouth  to flat in the middle of the mouth. OME OME.

We have some exceptions here  in some very common words.  

In come and some, we're going to say the short  uh and then the m. um um um. To say that short uh  

mouth is relaxed tongue is just in the  middle of your mouth-nice and short.  

And then close your mouth for the m.  Air moves out of your nose. come some

So we have home gnome chrome  and dome come and sum.

So most of the time when a word ends with come  or some we are going to say it the same way. So  

we will have become, income, and troublesome. We  do have exception here we have chromosome. You are  

going to say the long OME and end with the m here  even though if we followed this rule to the letter  

we would think that we would say chromosome  and we don't. Um also another exception is  

we're going to say a k for this ch here.  So chrome a some chromosome chromosome

So let's give those all a try: home gnome chrome dome chromosome 

and then come some become income troublesome

So give it a try I know people are going to  notice the difference. If you found this helpful  

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