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To be or not to be? [Laughs] Spelling bee.
In North America, we have this competition

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called "spelling bee". It's where children
take words -- adults give children words,

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long words, and the children have to spell
them correctly. Now, if you're from Saudi

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Arabia or Japan or Korea or other countries,
right now, you're going, "Oh, my God, no!"

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Because you have to do this in English, and
your alphabet is not ours. Latin speakers

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tend to go, "Oh, we'll do very well", and
you're bad as well. And you want a secret?

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I'm bad at spelling. So just share it between
you and the other hundred thousand people

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watching this, okay? So I'm bad at spelling.
You're bad at spelling. But I have to teach

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the rules at school, and I do. I actually do.
And if you ask me something, I'll tell

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you the rule. But you might catch me spelling
it incorrectly. So this lesson is for you

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and for me. And I call it Spelling 101.

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English is not a phonetic language. It makes
it very difficult to learn how to spell. So

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I'm going to give you English or Spelling
101, which are two little rules that will

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help you spell when dealing with English vowels.
"The long and the short of it", I like the

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call this lesson. It's a joke in there. The
long and the short. Whatever. Okay. Let's

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go to the board.

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Are you hoping -- and "hope" is when you pray.
You know? You say, "Please let me win the

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lottery. Really. I want to win the lottery.
Please let me win the lottery. Please let

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that beautiful girl think I'm nice. Please let
me pass the test. I hope. I hope. I hope.

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I wish. I pray." Or are you "hopping"? Are
you hopping, like boink, boink, boink? Like

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a little bunny rabbit. Are you hopping? You
notice one has a P, and one has two Ps. Some

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of you would have written this because you'd
say, "Well it's more than 'hope'. It's long,

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right?" Because "hop" looks like this, h-o-p.
"Hope" looks like this. And anybody from a

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natural language would probably say, "Well,
E -- this must be the correct one." I would

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think so. It's the longer word. But not in English, no.
We don't work like that. The

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shorter word gets it, and the longer word gets this.
When I was I kid, I was always

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told: Short words, you double it. That's what it was.
Okay. It made sense. But there's something

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a little more to it, and today, I'm
going to make it easy for you.

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Now, there's a lesson that has been done called
"The Magic E". Go check that out. That will

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help you -- you know, it's a longer lesson
that gives you more examples. But just to

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give you an idea of long versus short, okay?
The magic E states this: If you have -- let's

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look over here. "Wipe", for instance. This is
an I, a long vowel sound. There's a consonant

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and then, an E. If the E is on the end of a
word, you have a consonant and then, a long

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vowel sound. Okay? The E actually causes it
to be "wipe", not "wip". Right? So here's

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how we change it. Because we know this E helps
to modify this, we have to drop the E. Okay?

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Because it's actually silent. You think "wipe",
so it looks like this. That's what it looks

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like. "Wipe", not "why-ppe". Sorry, people from Brazil.
No "why-ppe". No "why-ppe" here.

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Okay? That's part of the problem. Nobody tells
you this stuff. But I do. Okay. So it's not

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"why-ppe" or "ray-tte" or "ho-ppe",
just "hope", "rate", and "wipe".

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Now, the magic E helps us because we see this,
and we know it's a long vowel sound. Yay!

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But when we're adding is it like, "wipes" or
"wiping", "rate" or "rated", hoped or hoping,

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we have to drop that E. We're told, "Drop the
E." It's silent. It's not doing anything,

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anyway. It's like your unemployed brother
in your basement. He's not doing anything.

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Get rid of him. So "wipe" becomes "wiped" or "wiping".
Drop the extra E. Not "wipeed".

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All right? "Rate" becomes "rated". Oops. Sorry.
It becomes "rated". Just add the ED. Or "hoping",

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in the case up there, it becomes "hoping".
We get rid of the extra E. We know it's the

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long vowel because there's only one consonant.
Right? One consonant. One consonant. So we

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know this must be "wiped", "rated", "hoping".
It could even be "hoped". "I hoped you would

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come." Okay? Don't double the consonant. Don't add two E's.
It's just single, single. Easy?

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Easy. The magic E. Now, we know how it creates a sound.
And now, we know how to change it.

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That's the long of it. The long vowel.
You like that?

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Let's go to the short vowel. Ready? Hold on.
It's a long walk. The board's long. Okay.

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Now, we're here. Okay, so we're on the other
end of the board. Short vowel syndrome. Well,

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in North America we have Short Man Syndrome.
Why are you looking at me? I'm incredibly

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tall. Can't you see? Where's the worm? Mr. E
is this tall. He's very sad about it. I

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am of course, taller than E. That's all we need to know.
Moving on. Okay. Short Man syndrome.

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In North America, we say "Short Man Syndrome"
-- like Napoleon, if you're small. They say

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short men like to feel big, so they buy big cars.
Okay? They wear big shoes. Okay? Or

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they wear big clothes to make them seem bigger.
Okay? So a short man will make himself try

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to look bigger to be more impressive. Funny
enough, this is what happens with our short

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vowels. When you have a word that -- like
"hop" -- has a shorter vowel sound, like the

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short man, he doesn't like that "hope" is longer.
So he tries to be bigger. So when

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"hope" adds ING, he goes, "No. I'm not 'hope'.
I'm 'hoping'." And he makes more consonants.

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So when we have a short vowel sound, we double
the consonants. So if it ends in a P and this

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is a short vowel, you've got to
double that consonant. Okay?

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Let's get some more examples because I know
it sounds confusing. But look: "ship". It's

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not "shipe". If you're Scottish, it's "shite".
No. It's not "shipe", it's "ship". It's with

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a short I. So unlike here where it's long and
there's no E -- there's no magic E -- we

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have to add another P. Short vowel syndrome.
And you can say, "It was shipped last week."

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And now, look how big that word is. See? Small.
Big. Short to tall. That's good. Okay?

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What up, pin? A little pin. Very little pin.
Not much of a prick to it, is there? Anyway.

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Listen up. "Pinned". "It was pinned to a shirt."
"Pinned." See? Once again, the little short

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man makes himself big. Short vowel syndrome.
And how about this? Well, this is a -- I would

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say a fitting end to this conversation. You
have to double the T. See? "Fit." "Fit", not

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"fite". "Fite" is different. "Fit". It's "fitting".
"Pinned" and "shipped". Compare these ones

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to these ones. These words are longer [whispers]
except this one. Don't look there. But these

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are longer. One. This is shorter. Short vowel syndrome.
You know how it goes, Baby.

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So simple lesson. The long and the short of it.
If it's a long vowel with one consonant

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and followed by an E -- the magic E -- drop
the E, and add on your ending. ING, ED, just

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add it right on. If it's a short vowel sound
with one consonant, double the consonant;

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then, add on your ending. This doubling of
the consonant tells us it's a short sound

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so we know how to speak. So not only did I
teach you spelling, you got pronunciation.

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Now -- sorry. We have more work to do.
I almost forgot. But I haven't.

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Here are some examples, my little short friend.
Let's go to the board. "I ask -- something

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-- my friend to taste my pie, and he rat --
it the best in the world." If I had rat pie,

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I would not be happy. So what do you think he said?
I think he "asked" my friend to taste

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my pie, and he ra -- rate. That's a long sound.
So we're going to go, "He rated it. Rated

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it." Okay? "The best in the world."

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What about the second one? "Was the whip --
cream" -- I've never seen a whip whip cream. But

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this is different. When you take milk or cream
and you do this, it becomes sort of like ice

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cream. It's called "whipped". There's no
whip involved, really. That would be weird.

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[Makes whipping sounds.] Anyway. So, "Was the
whipped cream wip -- up off the floor?" So "whip",

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"whip". That's short, right? Short. What did
we say about the short? Look he's not even

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happy. He's sad. Yeah. That's right. We're
going to make it big. The "whipped" cream.

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Now, "wipe", I -- that's long. So "wiped"
up off the floor. Yeah? I think so, too. I

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think it was "wiped up off the floor."

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So that's the long and short of our lesson.
But there is one more. Here's the problem.

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I wasn't going to talk about it because it
said -- the message on the board was, "Go

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to EngVid for the answer." That means you've
got to go to the quiz because on the quiz,

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that question will be there. And then, I'll tell you.
But if you don't go, you won't know.

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So where do you have to go? You have to go
to www.engvid.com, "eng" as in "English",

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"vid" as in "video", where you can see myself,
the other teachers, go over this lesson, go

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check out the magic E, and get the answer to
this particular question. And I know you're

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dying to find out what happened to the beautiful
Persian cat. Anyway. E and me gots to go.

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Have a good day. And see you soon. Okay?