The Vowels According to Rocio

A E I O U

Say it as it is spelled: ah, eh, eee, oh, ooh.

That's what they taught me and the millions of kids in my time. I remember that very well, that is the foundation of what I consider to me my special skill, linguistics. A, e, i , o u.

My daughter Rocio, whose name we say as Ro-SEE-yoh and not RO-sho, was reading her school book to me earlier this evening in preparation for her exams. She's in kindegarten at an academically acclaimed school here, and she obviously takes this very seriously. At 5 years old, she has study habits already, and part of those habits is truly analyzing what she reads.

She told me, "Ah, eh, ee, oh, uh! Uh, uh, uh!"

"Wait, what happened to ah, eh, eee, oh, ooh? Oooh, ooh, ooh?"

"Oooh?" Rocio scowled and pointed at the huge drawings on her book, "What is that, ooombrella? Ooonder the chair? Ooop the stairs?"

So I hereby decree that the vowels are now: ah, eh, ee, oh, uh!