Alfa, Bravo, Charlie… Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot. You’ve heard it in movies, the military, and aviation. But where did the NATO phonetic alphabet come from—and why these words? Discover the fascinating ...

If you've ever been around a plane or seen a pilot in a movie, you've heard the term "Roger" used as an acknowledgement. Here ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...

Many 'physical phonetic' variables are continuous, so physically there is an infinitely large range of possible sounds. The generative phonologists, unlike Bloomfield, believe in a universal level of ...

Hiding inside those nine theme answers are code words from the NATO phonetic alphabet. If you don’t know those code words by heart, then no problem — it’s easy enough to look them up.