The word phonics has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 1 in “Jacques Bailly, Spelling Bee’s Pronouncer, Has Tricks For Saying Words Correctly” by Remy Tumin:
On Sunday, Jacques A. Bailly gathered with the bee’s other pronouncers, along with its vocabulary team, in what he described as an “all word-nerds hands on deck” to go through the entire list of words and practice saying each one aloud.
… Mr. Bailly won the bee in 1980 at the age of 14, and he has been pronouncing words for the competition since 2003. He traced his interest in spelling back to first grade, when he learned to read using phonics, sounding out each consonant, symbol and letter until it formed a word — not too different from what he does before a national audience.
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