- phonics (n.)
[phonics 词源字典]
- 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.[phonics etymology, phonics origin, 英语词源]