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A spelling alphabet, radio alphabet, or telephone alphabet is a set of words which are used to stand for the letters of an alphabet. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters basic written symbols each of which roughly represents a Phoneme, a Spoken language, either Each word in the spelling alphabet typically replaces the name of the letter with which it starts (acrophony). Acrophony (Greek acro uppermost head + phonos sound is the naming of letters of an Alphabetic writing system so that a letter's name begins It is used to spell out words when speaking to someone not able to see the speaker, meaning there are no visual cues which assist the listener (the McGurk effect). The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in Speech perception. Giving one's name over the telephone is a common scenario where a spelling alphabet is often used. Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information Spelling alphabets are often called phonetic alphabets. However, phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet are designed to record detailed information about the sounds of human speech. Phonetic transcription (or phonetic notation) is the visual system of symbolization of the sounds occurring in spoken human Language. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic As written representations of spoken sounds, they are utterly different from spelling alphabets, which are spoken representations of written symbols.

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Voice procedure

See also: Voice procedure

Spelling alphabets are especially useful when speaking in a noisy environment when clarity and promptness of communication is essential, for example during two-way radio communication between an aircraft pilot and air traffic control, or in military operations. Voice procedure includes various techniques used to clarify simplify and standardize spoken communications over Two-way radios in use by the military in Civil aviation two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive (a Transceiver) unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives content Air traffic control ( ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct Aircraft on the ground and in the air Whereas the names of many letters sound alike, the set of replacement words can be selected to be as distinct from each other as possible, to minimise the likelihood of ambiguity or mistaking one letter for another. For example, if a burst of static cuts off the start of an English-language utterance of the letter J, it may be mistaken for A or K. Radio noise in radio reception is the superposition of White noise (also called "static" and other disturbing influences on the signal caused either by Thermal English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States In the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet (or NATO phonetic alphabet), the sequence J-A-K would be pronounced Juliett-Alpha-Kilo. The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used Spelling alphabet. Some voice procedure standards require numbers to be spelled out digit by digit; some spelling alphabets replace confusable digit names with more distinct alternatives: for example, the NATO alphabet has "niner" for 9 to distinguish it better from 5 and the German word "nein". A number is an Abstract object, tokens of which are Symbols used in Counting and measuring. In Mathematics and Computer science, a digit is a symbol (a number symbol e

History

On the Western Front of the First World War British Army signallers developed "signalese", a way of spelling out over the landlines in use to communicate. See Western Front (disambiguation for other meanings Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. In the Armed forces a signaller is a Soldier or Seaman responsible for Military communications and related tasks This gave rise to phrases such as "Ack-Ack" from AA for anti-aircraft. Pip-emma for pm.

Examples

The following examples are from various languages and time periods:[1]

Letter NATO & Aviation British Forces 1952 RAF 1942-43 NY Police French German Italian
A Alfa Abel Apple Adam Anatole Anton Ancona
Ä - - - - - Ärger -
B Bravo Baker Beer Boy Berthe Berta Bologna
C Charlie Charlie Charlie Charlie Célestin Cäsar Como
Ch - - - - - Charlotte -
D Delta Dog Dog David Désiré Dora Domodossola
E Echo Easy Edward Edward Eugène Emil Empoli
F Foxtrot Fox Freddy Frank François Friedrich Firenze
G Golf George George George Gaston Gustav Genova
H Hotel How Harry Harry Henri Heinrich Hotel
I India Item In Ida Irma Ida Imola
J Juliett Jig Jug / Johnny John Joseph Julius I lunga[2]
K Kilo King King King Kléber Kaufmann Kilo
L Lima Love Love Lincoln Louis Ludwig Livorno
M Mike Mike Mother Mary Marcel Martha Milano
N November Nan Nuts Nora Nicolas Nordpol Napoli
O Oscar Oboe Orange Ocean Oscar Otto Otranto
Ö - - - - - Ökonom -
P Papa Peter Peter Peter Pierre Paula Padova
Q Quebec Queen Queen Queen Quintal Quelle Quarto
R Romeo Roger Roger / Robert Robert Raoul Richard Roma
S Sierra Sugar Suga Sam Suzanne Samuel Savona
Sch - - - - - Schule -
ß - - - - - Eszett[2] -
T Tango Tare Tommy Tom Thérèse Theodor Torino
U Uniform Uncle Uncle Union Ursule Ulrich Udine
Ü - - - - - Übermut -
V Victor Victor Vic Victor Victor Viktor Venezia
W Whiskey William William William William Wilhelm Washington
X X-ray X-ray X-ray X-ray Xavier Xanthippe Ics[2]
Y Yankee Yoke Yoke / Yorker Young Yvonne Ypsilon[2] York
Z Zulu Zebra Zebra Zebra Zoé Zeppelin Zara

References

  1. ^ The Phonetic Alphabet
  2. ^ a b c d This is simply the ordinary name of the letter. The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used Spelling alphabet. The Armed forces of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces The RAF phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in Phonetics, i The French alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. It uses the standard 26 letters The German Alphabet consists of the same 26 letters as the modern Roman alphabet: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r The Italian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Italian language. Ancona (Ankon is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101909 (2005 " Ä " or " ä " is a character which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets or the letter A with Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Como is a City in Lombardy, Italy, north of Milan. Situated at the southern tip of the south-west arm of Lake Como, it Ch is a digraph in the Roman alphabet. It is treated as a letter of its own in the Domodossola is a city in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the region of Piedmont, Italy, earlier known as Oscela, Oscella Oscella dei Empoli is a town in Tuscany, Italy, about 30 km southwest of Florence. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Imola ( Iômla in the local dialect is a town Comune in the Province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river in the Emilia-Romagna "Leghorn" redirects here For the breed of chicken see Leghorn chicken. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Otranto is a town and commune in the Province of Lecce ( Apulia, Italy) in a fertile region once famous for its breed of horses O-Umlaut The glyph O with Umlaut appears in the German alphabet. Padua ( Padova 'padova Latin: Patavium, Padoa) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Quarto is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 11 km northwest of Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 This article is about the Italian city For the small town of Savona Canada please see Savona British Columbia, or the village in the USA, see Savona The letter ß ( Unicode U+00DF is a letter in the German alphabet. Udine ( Friulian Udin, Slovene Videm, German Weiden, Latin Utinum) is a city in northeastern Letter Ü The letter Ü occurs in Hungarian, Karelian, Turkish, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Xanthippe (Ξανθίππη was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. York ( is an historic Walled city sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, with a population of 72717 (2001

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