A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning.

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1836-1869) Vol. 7, 1857 - 1861 On the Phonetic Values of Egyptian Hiero... On the Phonetic Values of Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Assyrian Letters, &c. This is ...