A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

This page allows you to type phonetic transcripts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Simply click on a phonetic symbol, and it will appear in the text box below. You can edit your ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and KUOW listener John Weaver of Tacoma, Wash.

Move the pointer over the row and column headings to see descriptions of the manners and places of articulation. Then click on the IPA symbols for each English sound to open a popup window with sample ...

Memorise and practise using the useful alfa bravo charlie-style phonetic alphabet, used worldwide to make it easier to spell words over the radio. That might clear up one confusion, but the best way ...

The phonetic alphabet aids global communication, ensuring standardization across aviation. Numeric standards complement the ...

For example, Friday's game linked the words "Foxtrot, "Hotel, "Victor," and "Yankee" under the category "NATO Phonetic Alphabet." Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also ...

The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English alphabet. It is not exactly the same because the ancient Egyptians did not have symbols for vowels (‘a’, ‘e ...

NATO MEMBERS: Each theme answer is the name of a person whose first name represents a letter in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet: INDIA, VICTOR, SIERRA, and MIKE. Each time the NATO alphabet is ...

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that ... Blue group — NATO phonetic alphabet (FOXTROT, HOTEL, VICTOR, YANKEE) Purple group — associated with #2 (DEPUTY, DEREK ...

Hiding inside those nine theme answers are code words from the NATO phonetic alphabet. If you don’t know those code words by heart, then no problem — it’s easy enough to look them up.