phonetic alphabet
Example Sentences
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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
The phrase comes from the military phonetic alphabet; it is not slang.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2016
The order in this section is that of the phonetic alphabet.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
