Chapter 21Eli and Casey
T’would seem I was, because a second swipe had Casey’s phone screen looking more like the windows on a slot machine. Instead of three oranges, it stopped near the beginning, where Casey was asking Johnny about the end of his Dare Day poem, and if he really didn’t know what words sound like.
Casey: Why does that make me so sad?
My heart seized.
Johnny went on to explain how he sets an image of a word in his mind more than a pronunciation.
J Yo: By carefully watching how a speaking person changes the shape of their mouth when saying words, I’m able to differentiate certain things when I read lips, like “sow” as in a cow and “sow” as in seeds. Not that those two particular words come up often in my daily life, since I’m Johnny Orange, not Old MacDonald.
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