        Even worse, the letters hardly seemed to ever be pronounced in words like they were pronounced on their own.  The first word of the book, see, had the same pronunciation as the third letter of the alphabet, yet instead of only being one symbol, it was three, and clearly should have been pronounced essee.  She was not sure if the he was unable to correctly pronounce the words, or if it wasn’t more like Earth pony language, with an insufficient number of letters to represent—as best as they could—the sounds of speech.  On the other hoof, the words were all short, so that was something.