Let me spell it out for you. An Australian woman has gone viral after realizing she discovered the Phonetic alphabet by accident after calling the police about stolen property. The video, which was ...

Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

A young Aussie was left feeling 'dumb' after learning about the phonetic alphabet for the first time. Emily Brogan, from Brisbane, called the police to ask for an update on a bag that was stolen from ...

Every time an aircraft checks in with air traffic control, pilots identify themselves using a unique call sign, something like “Delta November Three Seven Two,” not “DN372”. They also exchange ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

Sometimes words just have to be spelled for others. I’ve been on phone conversations where the person on the other end is spelling for me and it’s painful. “Was that a ‘b’ or a ‘p’?” Sometimes they’ll ...

The aviation alphabet is used to make communication within the airline industry clear and easy to understand. Let’s review this below. [Credit: iStock] The International Civil Aviation Organization ...

Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding. But can phonetic spelling systems really smooth the path to world peace? You are in Vietnam ...