Post #1618952
2026-03-28 13:31 UTC
Yeah, there was some phonics in my primary school education, and I continue to approach new words in that way sometimes. But, they said [Phon**et**ically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_alphabet).
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@gozz@lemmy.world 2026-03-28 18:15
[Phonetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics) is the study of speech sounds. The phonetic alphabet is called that because each letter/word in the alphabet was chosen to be one that started with the corresponding phoneme and that the set of words were between them phonetically unambiguous. Phonics is a way of teaching reading and writing that is based on the phonetics of words and how they relate to the written form.