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 ...

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 ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

When you're on the phone and you're trying to say something like your postcode, for example, but the line is a little bit dodgy, sometimes you may reiterate the letter you're saying by repeating 'N ...

D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...

If you've ever listened in on air traffic control tower chatter or seen pretty much any movie about the military, you've heard people using the NATO phonetic alphabet. It's a method that substitutes a ...

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 ...