Where Did the Phonetic Alphabet Come From?
BrainStuff
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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As audio technology developed during the 1900s, people realized that they needed a clearer way to communicate terms than spelling them out in the normal alphabet. Learn how the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, etc.) came to be in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/phonetic-alphabet.htm
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