This principle is followed during Stage 1 in the use of a phonics handboard. The teacher uses the handboard to start with something familiar to the students, the spoken word.

Tut! said old Bittlesham. Tut is right, I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race, I said, why are you looking so rattled?

When the Buddhist monks and the dongbas went to the west to seek the sacred scriptures, the dongbas won the race and got the pants. This is why Tibetan Buddhist monks only wear robes, while we dongbas wear robes and pants.

This is an observation I make in Jefferies (1990) in connection with certain allomorphs of the copulative, 'possessive' and some of the adverbialising prefixes in Shona, where, again, these inflectors depend on 'their' stems for vowel shape and how their underlying high tones are realised.