Ack, Beer, Kilogramme, Uppsala, Xanthippe and other words that saved lives and led to our current phonetic alphabet.

This page allows you to type phonetic transcripts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Simply click on a phonetic symbol, and it will appear in the text box below. You can edit your ...

A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

The phonetic alphabet aids global communication, ensuring standardization across aviation. Numeric standards complement the ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning. We'll show you one Kanji from each episode, related to the skit ...

Move the pointer over the row and column headings to see descriptions of the manners and places of articulation. Then click on the IPA symbols for each English sound to open a popup window with sample ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning.