To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading — but, I must add, only to a point. Just a brief look at the previous sentence will show numerous exceptions ...
A dozen second-graders in a Brooklyn classroom echoed their teacher in a cheerful chorus one morning as she held up one card after another. “U, n, k, junk, unk,” read the teacher, Wilda Morency, at ...