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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

For much of the show’s run, various minor nurse characters were so interchangeable that they were repeatedly named “Able” and “Baker” — literally, “A” and “B” in an older version of the military phonetic alphabet.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022

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

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

The phonetic alphabet is used extensively, though we have many books printed in the mode usually adopted on earth.

From Strange Visitors by Horn, Henry J.