Our new baby’s called Phoneme
Why?
We were on the phone when she was conceived
What sort of phone?
A gramophone.
It must have been big
It wasn’t that big but the record was!
What was it?
The National Anthem
You mean you bought a record of God Save the Queen?
No,it was Jerusalem
That’s not even in the UK!
Well,you could have fooled me.
phoneme
ˈfəʊniːm/
noun
PHONETICS
noun: phoneme; plural noun: phonemes
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any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.
Origin
late 19th century: from French phonème, from Greek phōnēma ‘sound, speech’, from phōnein ‘speak’.
How my heart sings 