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Subject:Re: Origin of phonetic alphabet From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 2 Jun 1995 20:37:53 -0700
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.
