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Subject:Re: Origin of phonetic alphabet From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:44:18 -0800
At 8:37 PM 6/2/95, Karen Kay wrote:
>John Renish said:
>> It's the International Phonetic Alphabet, not just the U.S. military's.
>Are you sure that's what it's called??? I think of the IPA as being
>the symbols that linguists use to represent sounds, so you can
>transcribe a language you've never heard before and have no idea how
>to spell.
>Karen
> karenk -at- netcom -dot- com
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Karen, I think the term "international" comes from the fact that the PA was
adopted by the International Civial Aeronautics Organization (ICAO) as the
PA to be used for all aviation communications. (English is the ICAO
standard language).
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