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
The phrase comes from the military phonetic alphabet; it is not slang.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2016
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
But Denise Sabet, the vice general manager at Labbrand, suggests the reasons include cultural differences and the Chinese reliance on characters for words, rather than a phonetic alphabet.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2011
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
