Unfortunately, English letters are easily confused. Did the officer, or ham during an event, say “P” or “B”? The police started using a phonetic alphabet ... It sounds a little strange ...

Esperanto uses the Latin alphabet with a consistent phonetic system ... Languages that have sounds or phonemes not present in English, such as the tonal distinctions in Mandarin or the guttural ...

To round out our phonetic journey, here are a few consonant sounds you won’t have to second-guess. One sound you can be certain of is ‘Z’ (as long as it isn’t combined into a digraph or trigraph).