Oh, and by the way, the word for “n” is “November,” not “Nancy.” I guess that when it comes to the phonetic alphabet, I’m still a stickler.

The phonetic alphabet isn't the industry's only linguistic specialty. Some numbers are also pronounced in a way that delineates them from similar-sounding words.

Someone wrote: "It's the NATO phonetic alphabet." Another admitted: "I'm a travel agent and use it daily and I STILL don't know the phonetic alphabet LMAOOOOO I say m for mother or mike.

Time begins at 0100 (pronounced zero-one hundred) and ends at 2400 (twenty-four hundred). Like the phonetic alphabet, military time is used to avoid any errors in communication.

There are two different alphabets, the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, and the Western Union Phonetic Alphabet. Both work just fine, and knowing the correct words to use should help speed up the process ...

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 ...

Germany is restoring Jewish names that Nazis stripped from its phonetic alphabet more than 75 years ago. Adolf Hitler changed the alphabet in 1934, a year after he ascended to power — subbing ...

It is completely phonetic." The mechanics of introducing a new alphabet like SaypU are far from simple. The website currently has 10,000 words that can be translated into the new alphabet.

News Weird News Funny ha ha viral People 'mind-blown' to discover there's a phonetic alphabet - with correct words to use A woman was left feeling 'dumb' after she admitted she had no knowledge of ...