While you might think people are just picking random words—and indeed some might be—there is actually a defined military phonetic alphabet that was established over the first half of the 1900s that ...

Time begins at 0100 (pronounced zero-one hundred) and ends at 2400 (twenty-four hundred). Like the phonetic alphabet, military time is used to avoid any errors in communication.

All pilots, air traffic controllers, and flight dispatchers are required to know the aviation phonetic alphabet in order to more quickly and accurately relay information between each other.

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 phonetic alphabet isn't the industry's only linguistic specialty. Some numbers are also pronounced in a way that delineates them from similar-sounding words. Specifically, three, five, and ...

If you've ever listened in on air traffic control tower chatter or seen pretty much any movie about the military, you've heard people using the NATO phonetic alphabet. It's a method that ...