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
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
Printing with moveable type and a phonetic alphabet were brought into use and vernacular literature began to flourish.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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