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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

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

They contain the germ of a phonetic alphabet, and represent sounds of spoken language.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison



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