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phonetic

adjective as in pertaining to speech sounds

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The album first sprang to mind six years ago, when the title began as a simple game of phonetics.

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The exam comprised a series of papers on phonetics, grammar, and translation, which took 12 hours to complete.

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Many proudly refer to themselves as DINKs — using the acronym in English — or dingke, the phonetic translation in Mandarin.

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They say they have found four basic components they think make up this phonetic alphabet.

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The description of what the researchers termed a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet” opens the possibility of conveying a much larger variety of information.

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