English Language Learning Models

The letters e and a appear together in many words. How can you use ChatGPT to do research for you that saves time? How does that help you learn English? Creating space and time to think on these words is what gives me joy! I love words.

What caught my eye today was the verse on the calendar for this new month.

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5

See all the ea words? “How many more are there?” I wondered. I already had collected my own list in the last month, written down by hand, reveling in the patterns of the English language. Now there is something about that combination I enjoyed. How is each word the same? How are they each pronounced — the same or different? How did these words come to be? I launched my research with ChatGPT.

So I asked ChatGPT. “What are 50 words with ea?”

ChatGPT

Certainly! Here are 50 words that contain the letter combination “ea”:

1. Beach

2. Dream

3. Teach

4. Feast

5. Peanut

6. Gear

7. Clean

8. Year

9. Bread

10. Heart

11. Leaf

12. Team

13. Steam

14. Fear

15. Great

16. Peach

17. Idea

18. Eager

19. Speak

20. Least

21. Sweat

22. Near

23. Peace

24. Weather

25. Steamboat

26. Treasure

27. Breakfast

28. Measure

29. Elephant

30. Feather

31. Theater

32. Health

33. Reason

34. Please

35. Feathered

36. Dreamy

37. Seahorse

38. Release

39. Theater

40. Reap

41. Easel

42. Steady

43. Canvas

44. Rear

45. Cheat

46. Beat

47. Feature

48. Featherweight

49. Research

50. Deadbolt

I asked, “List 50 more.”

ChatGPT

Of course! Here are 50 more words that contain the letter combination “ea”:

1. Repeat

2. Reasonable

3. Affordable

4. Challenge

5. Measure

6. Feature

7. Ideal

8. Treaty

9. Yearly

10. Seashell

11. Breakfast

12. Healthcare

13. Stealth

14. Headache

15. Dearly

16. Teardrop

17. Leafy

18. Deaf

19. Eavesdrop

20. Instead

21. Realize

22. Seal

23. Leather

24. Squeak

25. Feastly

26. Grease

27. Beachfront

28. Conceal

29. Coalesce

30. Deadline

31. Breathe

32. Wreath

33. Fearless

34. Breakdown

35. Cleanse

36. Theatergoer

37. Unreal

38. Researcher

39. Teapot

40. Yearn

41. Feathery

42. Leash

43. Steamer

44. Offbeat

45. Appear

46. Bereave

47. Tease

48. Wreathe

49. Speakeasy

50. Revealing

Then I asked, “Are there 150 more?”

ChatGPT

I can provide you with more words containing the letter combination “ea,” but listing 150 more may be quite extensive. Here are 25 additional words:

1. Disappear

2. Threesome

3. Headquarter

4. Creativity

5. Mislead

6. Pleasure

7. Streamline

8. Clearance

9. Unhealthy

10. Dreadful

11. Meatball

12. Forearm

13. Squeaky

14. Steadfast

15. Earlobe

16. Yearning

17. Rearview

18. Concealer

19. Treason

20. Feasible

21. Leatherette

22. Teardrop

23. Swear

24. Weathered

25. Forebear

If you need more words or have specific words in mind, please let me know, and I’ll be happy to provide them.

Then I wondered about the pronumciation. Some are short e, some are long. Some are “eh” and some are “e.” Some are surprises. Some I had written down.

E and A are vowels

E and A are letters that begin names of my children and grandchildren.
E and A have meaning to me.

I like English vowels: AEIOU. The beginning of pronunciation, long a says A; long e says E; long I says I; long o says O; long u says U. I learned that when I was 8. That began my love of language. I could do that. Then I learned the short sounds of each. I could read! By the time I was 12, I loved the English language more and diagramming words still is fun for me.

Words. Definitions. Origins. How did they get to be combined? We are on a journey to find out more.

This is not the same as large language models.

A large language model (LLM) is a deep learning algorithm that can perform a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Large language models use transformer models and are trained using massive datasets — hence, large. This enables them to recognize, translate, predict, or generate text or other content.

The LLM used here saved me time, increased my curiosity, and brought more ideas for researching words. Yet, did you notice 4 ea words that ChatGPT missed? Learn and lean. I found those on my own. And what about the most obvious ones? ear and hear. That’s what sound is all about.

Those were 3 of the first for me out of the 125 that ChatGPT found. AI is only so good. ChatGPT cannot match the human being. We humans will never be replaced in totality. Artificial is not as satifying as the real thing. The joy of “I found another one” still energizes me.