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 ...

Memorise and practise using the useful alfa bravo charlie-style phonetic alphabet, used worldwide to make it easier to spell words over the radio. That might clear up one confusion, but the best way ...

researchers have determined the building blocks of a "phonetic alphabet" that they believe sperm whales use to communicate. The researchers analyzed a set of data comprising 8,719 codas ...