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 ...

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On-air challenge: This is a phonetic puzzle. If I asked you to say a letter of the alphabet before one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men to get a boy's name, you'd put L before MYRRH to get ELMER.

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Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The aim of phonetic transcription is to represent the sounds of speech on paper. This book surveys the history of attempts to represent ...

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The Strib printed the phonetic spelling of the Greek gyro so readers could pronounce this novel word. Svitak Dean grew up eating salt and pepper meat and potatoes. But she’d be hard-pressed to ...