Roger was one of the first words for "R" in early aviation phonetic alphabets and came to mean "message received." ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...

Standing in front of the cashier in the take-out line, you tell them your name so you can pick up that pizza you called in 20 minutes ago. The confused cashier tells you, “Hmm, I don’t have an order ...

The aviation alphabet is used to make communication within the airline industry clear and easy to understand. Let’s review this below. [Credit: iStock] The International Civil Aviation Organization ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

I would venture to guess that most people have some familiarity with military time and the phonetic alphabet. Both have been used in television and film hundreds of times, however, I can understand if ...

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, for ...

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 ...