I would venture to guess that most people have some familiarity with military time and the phonetic alphabet. Both have been used in television and film hundreds of times, however, I can understand if ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

Standing in front of the cashier in the take-out line, you tell them your name so you can pick up that pizza you called in 20 minutes ago. The confused cashier tells you, “Hmm, I don’t have an order ...

A young Aussie was left feeling 'dumb' after learning about the phonetic alphabet for the first time. Emily Brogan, from Brisbane, called the police to ask for an update on a bag that was stolen from ...

Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...

Aviation lingo can baffle landlovers. And readers. To say nothing of passengers, clients or editors. From "go-around" to "hold short," a language has evolved among sky people that's heavily influenced ...