ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
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There's a better English alphabet
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The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA)
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I improved the alphabet
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What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
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Interactive International Phonetic Alphabet
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Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
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Earliest version of our alphabet possibly discovered
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