In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

A young Aussie was left feeling 'dumb' after learning about the phonetic alphabet for the first time. Emily Brogan, from Brisbane, called the police to ask for an update on a bag that was stolen from ...

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...

Whether you're effected by Hurricane Sandy or not, bad reception is never something you want to mess around with. Reddit user psychuil points to the official phonetic alphabet as a great means to ...

The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in two languages, Aramaic and Greek. Scientists who study language, known as linguists, can communicate about different ...

D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...