phonetic alphabet
Example Sentences
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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
The phrase comes from the military phonetic alphabet; it is not slang.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2016
Other peoples provided the Greeks with crucial technological advances; they learned the phonetic alphabet from the Phoenicians, and how to mint coins from the Lydians.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 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
Some nation, probably the Phoenicians, gave a new impetus to the art of writing by developing a phonetic alphabet; but this achievement, remarkable as it was in itself, added nothing fundamental to human capacity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
