Talk:Phonetic alphabet

Phonetic Alphabet (NATO, etc.)
Wasn't this called a phonetic alphabet because it was designed so that the phonetics of each letter was easily distinguishable from the others? It may use phonetics in a different manner, but it's still related to phonetics.

Benjamin Franklin
Does anyone have any examples of these "new characters" Franklin thought up? It seems silly to link Franklin from "phonetic alphabet" when there's no mention of that alphabet on his page anywhere. Let's find examples, or delete the link from this page.

skia 18:43, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Removed the following "** Benjamin Franklin thought up six new characters in 1768. "
 * There's no mention of it in the Franklin page. If information is ever added that page, this can be re-inserted into this one.
 * skia 23:04, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Herbert Bayer
[ Liberty Miller 20:01, 12 July 2005 (UTC) ] Removing " ** Herbert Bayer's fonetik alfabet ":
 * 1) I can not find a reference to "fonetik alfabet"
 * 2) Bayer was more interested in the font styling than anything else. There is a reference to him dropping a few letters, and never using upper case letters, but this is not, stricly speaking, a phonetic alphabet.
 * 3) He apparently called his Bauhaus styling (a geometric sans-serif font) "universal" (font) or "universal alphabet".
 * 4) "In 1925 capital letters were abolished at the Bauhaus, and professor Herbert Bayer designed his Universal Alphabet of lower case forms, which he demonstrated in a variety of executions, including handwriting and a typewriter (monowidth) version, although this was never manufactured."

If you contest this, please feel free to modify the information, but you must provide references. Thanks. Here are my online references:
 * http://www.dangheno.net/pwritingspg5.htm
 * http://www.scootergraphics.com/lower/
 * http://www.type.nu/bayer/
 * "Herbert Bayer designed a context-sensitive alphabet called the "basic alfabet", which can be found in the April 1964 issue of Print." - a forum poster, 2004

- Liberty Miller, 2005 July

Old phonetic symbols
Anyone else think maybe "The phonetic symbols in Webster's Third New International Dictionary and the previous Merriam-Webster dictionaries" deserve an article? --Random|832 14:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes. If you can, please do so. —Felix the Cassowary ( ɑe hɪː jɐ ) 05:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)