Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every time an aircraft checks in with air traffic control, pilots identify themselves using a unique call sign, something like “Delta November Three Seven Two,” not “DN372”. They also exchange ...

If you have a tricky name that needs spelling out every now and then, or you ever need to clarify something like a password or an address over the phone, you might find yourself resorting to the NATO ...

Sometimes words just have to be spelled for others. I’ve been on phone conversations where the person on the other end is spelling for me and it’s painful. “Was that a ‘b’ or a ‘p’?” Sometimes they’ll ...

A young Aussie was left feeling 'dumb' after learning about the phonetic alphabet for the first time. Emily Brogan, from Brisbane, called the police to ask for an update on a bag that was stolen from ...

A recent study explores how Japanese learners of French produce ambiguous speech errors. Using a specialized assessment tool, ...