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		lehi 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alph... I kept expecting this article about the ITA (Initial Teaching Alphabet, a Latin-based script with new glyphs for spelling words phonetically, now unused) to mention the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet, a Latin-based script with new glyphs for spelling words phonetically, still widely used), but apparently there is no relation?

marc_abonce 7 months ago [–]

The article doesn't explicitly mention the IPA but the illustration with the character set compares each character with its IPA equivalent.

Same chart, from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet#/med...

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