Let me spell it out for you. An Australian woman has gone viral after realizing she discovered the Phonetic alphabet by accident after calling the police about stolen property. The video, which was ...

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 ...

When you're on the phone and you're trying to say something like your postcode, for example, but the line is a little bit dodgy, sometimes you may reiterate the letter you're saying by repeating 'N ...

Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding. But can phonetic spelling systems really smooth the path to world peace? You are in Vietnam ...