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Meanings of phonetic alphabet in English

Portuguese
alfabeto fonético
Catalan
alfabet fonètic

An alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech.

alfabeto fonético
Usage of phonetic alphabet in English
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A great many years had passed since I learned the phonetic alphabet.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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The impact of the appearance of the phonetic alphabet was huge.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
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You have to admit it's more interesting than just numeric codes or phonetic alphabet designations.'
Bedlam
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Was my recollection of the phonetic alphabet itself adequate?
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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Alpha Papa The original UK title for Alan Partridge, based on his Nato phonetic alphabet initials.
The Guardian
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The second possibility generated the phonetic alphabet.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
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But it's exceedingly rare-maybeunprecedented-fora phonetic alphabet to suddenly acquire a big expansion pack of ideograms.
Wired
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Shaw maintained a phonetic alphabet would be more economical, but expected it might take centuries to win acceptance.
The new yorker
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He used to race people through the phonetic alphabet, to see who got to the end first, for fun.
The Guardian
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The phonetic alphabet is used extensively, though we have many books printed in the mode usually adopted on earth.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
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CIVILIZATION.-Fromthe invention of a phonetic alphabet and the use of letters in literary composition to the present time.]
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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I was helped in my pronunciation of English by comparing the words with the phonetic alphabet, as published by Thomas Gee of Denbigh, in 1853.
Men of Invention and Industry
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It remained for the to the Upper Status of barbarism, and, beyond that, to invent a phonetic alphabet to reach the first stage of civilization.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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His father Alexander Melville Bell had developed a "visible speech system," which he hoped would be the prototype of a universal phonetic alphabet.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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(1) Kana: the Japanese phonetic alphabet.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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3700 years ago: the first phonetical elements for writing appeared, and later (about 2900 years ago), the first phonetic alphabet.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
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Translations for phonetic alphabet
Phonetic alphabet through the time