Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word ...

Baaa and from the sound of it (lamb) you would expect the word to be spelt l, a, m. But lamb has a b on the end of it: l, a, m - b. Ha ha! Not that kind of bee – the letter b. If we pronounced ...