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 ...

The Military Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet. A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are ...

also known as the NATO phonetic alphabet. Learners can practise this fun and useful lifetime skill with quick class activities. This resource was written by P J White of Alt62.