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phonics (n.)
1680s, "science of sound," from Greek
phone
"sound," from PIE root
*bha-
(2) "to speak, tell, say" (see
fame
(n.)) +
-ics
. As a method of teaching reading it is first attested 1908, though the system dates from 1844.
