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
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
We find systems of writing in all the stages from pure pictures to the phonetic alphabet; in Egyptian hieroglyphics we find a mixture of all the stages.
From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman
