But in situations where accuracy and every second count — as is the case with the military and first responders — the phonetic alphabet is often employed for the sake of clarity.

An Australian woman has gone viral after realizing she discovered the Phonetic alphabet by accident after calling the police about stolen property.

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech ...

News Weird News Funny ha ha viral People 'mind-blown' to discover there's a phonetic alphabet - with correct words to use A woman was left feeling 'dumb' after she admitted she had no knowledge of ...

Sperm whales communicate through 'complex phonetic alphabet,' study finds The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, new study finds.

The NATO or phonetic alphabet came into being in 1956 and is used to avoid spelling mistakes or miscommunication. Like many such charts, it shows semaphore symbol, code word and Morse code ...

People combine sounds - often corresponding to letters of the alphabet - to produce words that carry meaning, then produce sequences of words to create sentences to convey more complex meanings.

On-air challenge: This is a phonetic puzzle. If I asked you to say the cry of a ghost plus a letter of the alphabet to get a bunch of flowers, you'd say BOO plus K to get BOUQUET. Now try these ...

(CNN) – Scientists said they have discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in whale calls, identifying a previously unknown complexity in whale communication. Researchers used artificial ...

(CNN) — Scientists have accomplished a whale of a feat. They’ve identified previously unknown complexity in whale communication by analyzing thousands of recorded sequences of sperm whale ...