phonetic alphabet
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They say they have found four basic components they think make up this phonetic alphabet.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
Just type “ICS” in the search function to read about the ways signals can be sent, and to see flag images, their meanings, associated letters and phonetic alphabet letters.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
I would watch the night’s TV, phone my copy in at midnight and the copy-taker, enraged by my version of the phonetic alphabet, would say: “Is there much more of this stuff?”
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2019
The phrase comes from the military phonetic alphabet; it is not slang.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2016
We find systems of writing in all the stages from pure pictures to the phonetic alphabet; in Egyptian hieroglyphics we find a mixture of all the stages.
From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman
