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Initial Teaching Alphabet

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[ih-nish-uhl tee-ching al-fuh-bet] / ɪˈnɪʃ əl ˈti tʃɪŋ ˈæl fəˌbɛt /

noun

  1. a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. I.T.A., i.t.a.

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Developed by Sir James Pitman, a Conservative M.P. and grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac, the Initial Teaching Alphabet is no Shavian attempt to supersede the regular alphabet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far from being the work of drunken printers, this is Britain's Initial Teaching Alphabet ?a nue wae too lern too reed and riet that Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle last month pronounced "a remarkable success."

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