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 ...

each representing a letter of the alphabet. Not only does it have an interesting history regarding how the so-called phonetic alphabet came to be, but it can also come in handy in certain modern ...

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 ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning.

Memorise and practise using the useful alfa bravo charlie-style phonetic alphabet, used worldwide to make it easier to spell words over the radio. That might clear up one confusion, but the best way ...

It was customary to refer to places in field areas using the phonetic alphabet for the first letter of the place name, both for security and clarity. Established radio telephony procedure requires ...