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Basic chart of characters of the Initial Teaching Alphabet, a semi-phonetic orthography of English mainly intended to make learning to read easier.

Each section of the chart is organized into three rows: the first includes the ITA letter, while the second indicates the main sound written by the letter in IPA notation "broad transcription", basically using the English Wikipedia en:Wikipedia:IPA_for_English conventions (but avoiding the use of an [hw] digraph for a single phonetic sound). The third row gives an English word containing the sound (written in ordinary current spelling), with the sound occurring at the beginning of the word if possible (at both the beginning and end of the word if convenient). If the sound does not occur at the beginning of the example word, the letters used to write the sound are bolded.

Note that whether the sound [k] is written with the letters "c" or "k" depends on the way the sound is written in current standard English spelling, as also whether the sound [z] is written with the ordinary "z" letter or the backwards (flipped) version of "z" resembling "s". There is also no letter for unstressed schwa [ə] as such (it is written with full vowel symbols).