Word: kwestion
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...ease the confusions of English spelling, which uses different letters for similar sounds ("shoe" and "nation"), the "Initial Teaching Alphabet" adds 18 made-up letters to the regular 26 so that all sounds can be spelled identically. Example: "too bee, or not too bee: that is the kwestion." Children later switch to conventional spelling with little apparent strain. Still other systems concentrate on the 80% of English words that are phonetically regular. To teach letter sounds, they use goof-proof sentences like "I ran. The man ran. Dan ran." Despite the resemblance to deadly Dick and Jane, the authors claim...
...inifhial teeching alfabet too bee, or not too bee: that is the kwestion...
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