How fast can you name all 26 words in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? This quiz will put your knowledge and speed to the test.
It helps agencies, businesses, services, aviators, and civilians communicate more clearly and precisely. Familiarizing yourself with the letters could help you spell out your name over the phone while ...
American orthography is, to put it charitably, dysfunctional. Whatever the dialect, neither alphabet nor spelling conforms to our speech. Yet, educators insist on perpetuating these incongruities.
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 ...
This February, the iconic dance company pairs a modern classic with Indigenous-led storytelling. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us how to spell in the 1950s, so I was ...
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 ...
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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 ...