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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't understand why it's called phonetic. It's has nothing to do with phonetics.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would you call it instead?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

From Wikipedia article:

The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply the Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Latin/Roman alphabet. Technically a radiotelephonic spelling alphabet, it goes by various names, including NATO spelling alphabet, ICAO phonetic alphabet, and ICAO spelling alphabet. The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits.

Although spelling alphabets are commonly called "phonetic alphabets", they are not phonetic in the sense of phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet.