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| phon·ics [ fónniks ] |
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reading method involving letter recognition: a method of teaching reading in which people learn to associate letters with the speech sounds they represent, rather than learning to recognize the whole word as a unit
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takes a singular verb
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| [Late 17th century. < Greek phōnē "sound, voice"] |
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