In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet ... Developing a proper grasp of the IPA involves learning about 100 letters ... French, German, and ...

A few changes were made to the letters C, M, N, U, and X, and by 1956 the alphabet was formed into what is still in use today ...

Explore the historical context of vowel symbols in British English, which were originally selected to represent an ...

Above, you can see the beginning of an article in French on "Ecriture Phonétique Simplifie," or simplified phonetic writing. 6. THERE WERE SPECIAL PHONETIC SYMBOL TYPEWRITERS FOR WRITING IN IPA.

The Military Alphabet During World War II. During World War II, the United States military used a modified version of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet (JANAP). This was adopted in 1941 and ...

The NATO phonetic alphabet helps avoid ambiguity and makes it clear what the letters are, she says. In the mid-1950s, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) became the first group to ...

You've probably heard the phonetic alphabet before in movies, especially war movies. A crackle comes over someone's radio and a voice cuts through the static: "Alfa Bravo, this is Foxtrot Victor ...

The lower level has similarities to letters in an alphabet, Sharma said. "Every communication system is tailored to the environment and animal society in which it has evolved," Sharma added.

He has set up SaypU, an alphabet with none of the indecipherable squiggles of traditional phonetic alphabets. It contains 23 letters from the Roman alphabet as well as a back to front e.