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4 unusual facts about Phonetic alphabet


Phonetic alphabet

Phonetic transcription system: a system for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing

Phonemic orthography: for representing the sounds of a particular language where one symbol corresponds to one sound

NATO phonetic alphabet: the most widespread such set (e.g., Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, etc.)

Spelling alphabet: a set of words used instead of alphabetic letters in radio communication; each word stands for its initial letter


Hurricane Easy

There have been several hurricanes designated Easy when the initial naming system was used (the Phonetic alphabet).

William Bullokar

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The album was named after a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.


see also

Alveolar fricative

Voiced alveolar fricative, written as z in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Voiceless alveolar fricative, written as s in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Stød

Because Dania, the phonetic alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet designed specifically for Danish, uses the IPA character for a glottal stop to transcribe stød, the feature is frequently mistaken to be a consonant rather than a prosodic feature.

The Plane Train

The 2006 recordings were the first to use the phonetic alphabet, and were provided by the voice of Susan Bennett (who is best known today for being the voice of Siri on Apple's iPhone, as well as the female voice of Delta Air Lines' gate boarding announcements at the airport).

Theodor Siebs

His Deutsche Bühnenaussprache is still relevant, though, for practical purposes it has largely been supplanted by other works that employ the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), which Siebs' work did not.