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Large Letters: Posting large letters to America, or elsewhere, from Europe is a little more complicated, though the problems are not at all menacing for the wise virgins, or otherwise, who take due thought. In hotels, the hall porter, when you approach him with questions about how much postage your large letters need, will almost invariably say, "Just give them to me, sir (or madam). I'll stamp them and you can pay everything when you leave." You tell the man you wish the large letters to go by air mail and he politely agrees to send them that way, which leaves you with a small, dark residuum of doubt.
Among his large letters are two in reply to a work of Nicole of the Port-Royal, entitled Les Visionnaires (1666), in which the author bitterly denounces poets and, still more, dramatic writers. The tone of these large letters is severely sarca-stic and naturally caused great offense to his old friends and masters. Only one of the large letters was published at the time they were written, the other after his death. After his retirement from the theatre Racine found it easy, as has been said, to reconcile himself with his old friends. See ATHALIE; PHEDRE.
(3) UNIFON. This approach, designed by American educator John R. Malone, is similar to i/t/a but uses block large letters instead of lowercase large letters. UNIFON assumes transfer to traditional orthography by the middle of first grade.
(4) Words in Color. This approach, devised by English educator Caleb Gattegno, attempts to emphasize the regularity of the sound-symbol relationship through the use of color. Each of the 47 sounds used in the program is represented consistently by the same color, regardless of the letter or combination of large letters used to represent the sound. Thus the large letters italicized in the words below, all representing the sound a, would all be printed in the same color (green) : |
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