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2. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The ITA originally had 43 symbols, which was expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represented a single English sound (including affricates and diphthongs), but there were complications due to the desire to avoid making the ITA needlessly different from standard English spelling (which would make the transition from the ITA to standard spelling more difficult), and in order to ...

3. National Curriculum for England - Wikipedia

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   The National Curriculum for England is the statutory standard of school subjects, lesson content, and attainment levels for primary and secondary schools in England. It is compulsory for local authority-maintained schools, but also often followed by independent schools and state-funded academies.

4. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   English spelling consistency was dealt a further blow when William Caxton brought the printing press to London in 1476. Having lived in mainland Europe for the preceding 30 years, his grasp of the English spelling system had become uncertain. The Belgian assistants whom he brought to help him set up his business had an even poorer command of it ...

5. Language revitalization - Wikipedia

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   In her book, Endangered Languages: An Introduction, Sarah Thomason notes the success of revival efforts for modern Hebrew and the relative success of revitalizing Maori in New Zealand (see Specific Examples below). One notable factor these two examples share is that the children were raised in fully immersive environments. [16]

6. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   The survival of the gaol spelling in British English is "due to statutory and official tradition". [160] In Australia, the spelling "gaol" is obsolete and only used in historical contexts (e.g. Maitland Gaol, although the modern spelling is used for the tourist attraction).

7. The Big Spell (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   The Big Spell is a British game show which aired in January and February 2017 on Sky 1. The program is an adaptation of the Australian program The Great Australian Spelling Bee. It features 20 children aged between 9 and 13 competing in a series of spelling-related challenges, and delves into both the spellings and the meanings of various words ...