From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: five graders Article-I.D.: watmath.3200 Posted: Wed Aug 4 14:22:04 1982 Received: Wed Aug 4 23:31:38 1982 I posted an article several days ago with the reference. First-graders may read like fifth-graders (not "five" graders as I said before) if the read using the i/t/a (initial teaching alphabet) By the way, in my country it is considered impolite to ridicule a foreigner's grammar or pronunciation. But on the other hand, people aren't too polite here, even with fellow North Americans. Pablo Alliende.