You can have your mouth open underwater without letting water into your lungs… if you need justification besides “art” then you could say the kitten is trying to catch a fish in its mouth.

"Thompson, with a 'P', as in psychology"

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or /ɪɛztɛɪaɪ/ depending on whether you treat the final phoneme of moped as /t/ or /d/ -> [t]