![]() ![]() Instead use names which are appropriate for your customer base.Īpologies to our French visitors for the lack of accents in the right places in these names. There is no such thing as a standard French phonetic alphabet. To download you own copy of the Phonetic Alphabet to keep and use please click the link below. The letters of the alphabet can be difficult to discriminate, particularly over a limited bandwidth and noisy communications channels like early telephones. When its necessary to spell names or difficult words on the telephone, speakers use widely known names and words to illustrate the letters in the words that they spell. I printed this page, cut out the table containing the NATO phonetic alphabet (below), and taped it to. The following is the NATO version which is most commonly used, although European countries may have their own version. Telephone spelling alphabets were developed to improve communication since World War I, but the first non-military internationally recognized spelling alphabet. Useful for spelling words and names over the phone. So use the following to ensure clarity when taking spellings or postcodes. The word alphabet is a compound of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.The alphabet originated around the 7th century CE to write Old English from Latin script. ![]() That was not good for us as customers, and not good for the company who had to deal with extra calls, or good for the person at the end of the phone having to deal with our frustration. The alphabet for Modern English is a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an upper- and lower-case form. Recently we had spent what felt like hours dealing with a problem with an elderly relatives house insurance, just because the initial postcode was misheard over the telephone. It’s so easy to mistake a B for a P or an F for an S especially on mobile phones. Using this tool routinely can really ensure that you are accurate and cle ar during your telephone calls. The term phonetic alphabet comes from the NATO phonetic alphabet, which is shown below.Įnsure charlie, lima, alpha, romeo, india, tango, yankee on the phone by checking details and spelling. It is also sometimes called, wrongly, the 'International Phonetic Alphabet'. It is sometimes called the 'NATO Phonetic Alphabet' but in fact it predates NATO by several decades. A spelling alphabet used internationally over radios and telephones to ensure accuracy of key information. The NATO phonetic alphabet is a standardized system that spells letters and numbers over radio or telephone communications. The English Phonetic Spelling Alphabet is widely used by police and military organizations, including NATO. ![]()
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