Re: jaws spelling

  • From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:22:00 -0000

MessageI've gone to Wikipedia, the well-known free on-line encyclopaedia, and 
here's a summary.  Good news!  The phonetic alphabet can be either the 
linguistics representation or it can be a  phonetic spelling alphabet (where 
words stand for letters) , the object of our debate.  

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Phonetic alphabet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phonetic alphabet can mean:

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. Phonetic transcription
 system: for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing. 
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. International Phonetic Alphabet
 the most widespread such system 
. Category:Phonetic alphabets
 others 
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. Spelling alphabet
: a set of words used instead of alphabetic letters in radio communication; 
each word stands for its initial letter 
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. NATO phonetic alphabet
 the most widespread such set 
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