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If you consider the scenario of dictating over the phone, letters can be confusing not just because of their written shape. For many non-English speakers, for e
by kozak 7y ago
If you consider the scenario of dictating over the phone, letters can be confusing not just because of their written shape. For many non-English speakers, for example, E can be confused with I, and V can be confused with W, unless both sides use the same way of pronouncing them. Look how Microsoft's base24 alphabet (from the other comment) has neither E nor I.
- beojan 7y agoThat's what the NATO phonetic alphabet is for.
- kozak 7y agoIn this case the phonetic alphabet will do the job only for English-speaking countries (or at least those that are very well accustomed to Latin characters).
- beojan 7y agoThe point of the NATO alphabet is everyone in NATO uses it, even if it isn't their native alphabet, as in the case of Greece.