{"id":489,"date":"2009-11-03T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-11-18T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T20:46:16","slug":"worldwide-spelling-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/worldwide-spelling-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide spelling alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spelling-alphabet-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"Spelling alphabet\" title=\"Spelling alphabet\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spelling-alphabet-300x115.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spelling-alphabet-1024x395.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Spelling-alphabet.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Recently I tried to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NATO_phonetic_alphabet \">spelling alphabet<\/a> (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie) when I needed to spell something here in Spain (haven\u2019t completely grasped the Spanish alphabet yet). To my surprise, I found out it is not as universal as I thought. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are different countries have their own spelling alphabets, as <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomery.cas.muohio.edu\/meyersde\/kitchensink\/alphabets\/\">this site<\/a> (although old) shows. Spain\u2019s spelling alphabet begins Antonio, Barcelona, Carmen, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The alphabet I was using is known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A8245910\">NATO phonetic alphabet<\/a>, or the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet. It\u2019s been adopted by many military and civilian organisations around the world, including the Federal Aviation Administration and International Telecommunication Union, which I suppose is why I assumed people would know it here. It&#8217;s also been used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiowillkwan.com\/work.xrayyankeezulu.php\">art<\/a>, and a comment on language.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the various alphabets, it seems that most are based on names, particularly of people. The names appear specific to each country (D\u00e9sir\u00e8 for example), which would not be useful for an international alphabet. I particularly like the older English alphabets, which include gems such as <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/Xantippe\">Xantippe<\/a> (British A), Monkey, Nuts (British Royal Air Force from 1924-1942) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xerxes_I_of_Persia\">Xerxes<\/a> (British Royal Navy \u2013 1917).<\/p>\n<p>Do you know a spelling alphabet? What words are used? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I tried to use the spelling alphabet (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie) when I needed to spell something here in Spain (haven\u2019t completely grasped the Spanish alphabet yet). To my surprise, I found out it is not as universal as I thought. In fact, there are different countries have their own spelling alphabets, as this site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,327,44],"tags":[34,397,395,396],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-english","category-spanish","category-words","tag-alphabet","tag-nato-phonetic-alphabet","tag-phonetic-alphabet","tag-spelling-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}