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
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
During World War II, Dr. Abrams worked at an acoustic laboratory at Harvard, helping develop a phonetic alphabet that could be heard by soldiers amid the din of battle.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2015
But Denise Sabet, the vice general manager at Labbrand, suggests the reasons include cultural differences and the Chinese reliance on characters for words, rather than a phonetic alphabet.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2011
Step by step, he has thus been able to form his phonetic alphabet.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
