This much-anticipated performance marks the first time DanceHouse will present a Taiwanese work. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us how to spell in the 1950s, so I was ...

Sometimes words just have to be spelled for others. I’ve been on phone conversations where the person on the other end is spelling for me and it’s painful. “Was that a ‘b’ or a ‘p’?” Sometimes they’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

E very time an aircraft checks in with air traffic control, pilots identify themselves using a unique call sign, something like “Delta November Three Seven Two,” not “DN372.

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 ...