Sacred Vowels

S.D. writes:

Quite a few years ago one of our educational assistants was doing "grocery lists," (basically-hearing sounds in words) iwth my kinder kids. The word she asked one little boy to write was "soup." He was having difficulty with the "ou" sound. She asked him if he knew what vowels were. I explained that we didn't call them vowels and he wouldn't know what that meant. He piped up and said "I know what vowels are! I've been to a wedding before!"