There's been a lot of discussion in the UK press recently about
teaching children to read using a system called Synthetic Phonics. 
Many reports say that this involves teaching the basic 42 phonemes of
the English language.  But exactly what are those 42 phonemes?  Can
you supply a list?

Hi michael2:

The following is the best list of the 42 English phonemes that I could find:

English Phonemes, Spellings, Example Words, and Meaningful Names 
URL: http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/spellings.html

Search Strategy (on Google):
* "42 english phonemes" 

I hope that helps. 

websearcher

Perfect!