OK, I guess it's an idiom that differs between romance languages and English. In Italian and my mother tongue a phonetic language is one where one letter corres

OK, I guess it's an idiom that differs between romance languages and English. In Italian and my mother tongue a phonetic language is one where one letter corresponds to one sound (or at least that's how my teachers referred to it in school). In English, the corresponding dictionary definition seems to be: a language with a "phonemic orthographic system". TIL.