phonicsn.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 473 Three parts of our Doctrine of Acousticks; which are yet nameless, unless we call them Acousticks, Diacousticks, and Catacousticks, or (in another sence, but to as good purpose) Phonicks, Diaphonicks, and Cataphonicks.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 145 We are neither giving a treatise of optics, or phonics, but a history of our own perceptions.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 922/2 The science [of] direct, reflected, and refracted sound. In allusion to the corresponding branches of optics, these have been denominated phonics, cataphonics, and diaphonics.

1811 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Phonics, the art of combining musical sounds.

1844 Q. Rev. June 26 (title) Shuttleworth's Phonics.

1870 C. G. Smith tr. Domesday Bk. p. xlvii Their knowledge of phonics must have guided them in spelling.

1961 Amer. Speech 36 93 (title) Phonemics and phonics in historical phonology.

1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 12 A phonic transcription includes the broad phonetic transcription presently favored by European phoneticians, the unsystematic simplification of phonetic forms.., and the systematic broad phonics of Bloch and Trager.

1901 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 16 p. xxvi The other means of counteracting the burdensome learning of ideographs is what is called ‘phonics’ in the schools.

1908 E. B. Huey Psychol. & Pedagogy of Reading iii. xiv. 280 Too often the line between phonics and reading is not drawn.

1966 K. De Hirsch et al. Predicting Reading Failure viii. 82 Five auditorily gifted children who read well had been intensively trained in phonics.

1973 Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 18 I believe that most teachers of remedial reading would agree that more attention to phonics when teaching children to read would be an excellent thing.

1996 Independent 6 Feb. 1/3 Teachers needed to make more use of traditional methods such as phonics in teaching reading.