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The NATO phonetic alphabet:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India
ITU version: Alfa Juliett X-ray |
Phonetic alphabets |
also Morse code mnemonics
Phonetic alphabets, in the sense used here, are also known as radio, telephone, spelling alphabets. They are used in aviation and by the military, police, radio amateurs and others.
Full collection of 18 February 2007 (1500 lines, 42k). Recent changes are summarised here.
Brief collection (100 lines).
The Able Baker story | Silly alphabets | Code Talkers
Phonetics elsewhere |
Fuat Baran's copy of my collection at Columbia. Copy at Vienna.
US Army | US Navy alphabets and flags | US Marines | Canada
NATO phonetic alphabet at Wikipedia, BBC h2g2.
Alpha Bravo Yankee Zulu - a programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 7th April 2006, to mark the 50th anniversary.
Stephen Phillips's phonetic alphabets (and Morse Code).
An aviation page about the ITU alphabet (with sounds).
ITU for Unaone Bissotwo (and ITU alphabet). Also here. Also here.
About John Alcorn's book (QZ codes, phonetics, Morse etc.). Or start here. Or try this address.
DX phonetics (Yokohama Zanzibar).
Police phonetics in Pittsburgh, by Alex Rudnicky.
History of German alphabet.
German
WW2 alphabet.
More about German.
German alphabet with sounds.
Dutch alphabet at Wikipedia.
Morse code mnemonic alphabets (Dutch and Belgian). Also here. Also Czech.
John Higgins' page (for silent alphabet).
John Higgins' page (for silent alphabet).
Silly alphabet by Jamie Blustein.
Alphabets d'e'pellation.
French numbers.
French
Scrabble alphabet and Morse code mnemonics.
Saratov for Russian Morse code, the alphabet generally and Gagarin. Or try here. Sounds are being added (.wav).
Swedish phonetics, including digits.
Swedish phonetics, including digits.
Wikipedia.
Page by Anders Bergström for Swedish dialects (Vamhus and Gotlandish). Archived copy.
Japanese phonetics at Wikipedia.
About spelling in Esperanto. Archived copy. And there's this.
Peripheral links |
Morse code.
Learning Morse.
About diacritics (Wells) |
sci.lang FAQ with maps
ISO 8859 character sets (and more)
(
mirror)
Unicode tests |
Test of
WGL4 (mini Unicode).
For phonetic symbols laɪk ðɪs see Wells or Wikipedia.
Wordlists |
also word/letter frequency, parts of speech, stress,
pronunciations;
various languages
UK English wordlist with frequency classification, version 1.01 (zip, 200k). 57000 words. No proper names. Includes hyphenated words. Intended to be suitable for checking spelling.
The top 1000 words in UK English, based on classic novels and Rosengren's modified frequency.
Letter frequency rankings for various languages.
Basic English, core vocabulary and word frequencies (newsgroup articles, 600 lines). Basic stands for British American Scientific International Commercial, apparently.
Wordlists elsewhere |
Public domain wordlists from the Moby lexicon project ( archived copy ) at Sheffield. There is part of speech information. Moby wordlists at Gutenberg.
Frequency info from the British National Corpus (or here) at Brighton, by Adam Kilgarriff. There is part of speech information. BNC materials at Lancaster.
UK English wordlist for OpenOffice. Includes hyphenated words and words with accents. 92000 words plus proper names. Or try here.
German wordlists.
Links about German.
Top words in German, English, French and Dutch.
Free Dictionaries Project by Zdenek Broz, for Universal Dictionary.
Carnegie Mellon. Comprehensive info on pronunciations and stresses (dict); also plain wordlist (lex). See also CMU page. Or try here.
A notable collection of wordlists for various languages at Oxford.
Wordlists at Finland, Berlin, Vaasa (Finland).
Wordlists at COTSE | Wordlists at COTSE
English wordlists for the Scrabble/crossword community.
National Puzzlers' League. Note particularly ENABLE and UK Cryptics. The latter includes hyphenated words, words with accents and phrases.
The Online Plain Text English Dictionary.
FreeDict for translation wordlists.
Stardict.
Translation dictionaries at Majstro.
Corpus links at Neuchatel.
Lemmatised
French wordlist.
French wordlists.
About dictionaries for ispell; also here.
Wordlists at Sourceforge.
Wordlists at
SCOWL with
spelling corrector.
English wordlist at SIL.
Large heterogeneous wordlist at Morgud.
Basic English.
Basic English.
Basic English.
David Zimmer's links about
letter frequency.
Letter frequencies in
COD9 headwords.
Letter frequencies for Arabic.
Or settle for this
archived copy.
Arabic word frequency.
Perseus for vocabulary lists for Latin and Greek.
Dave Fawthrop's FAQ on wordlists.
Peripheral links |
WordNet
- lexical database.
EuroWordNet.
Online dictionaries.
Onelook - dictionary search.
Anna Mazzoldi's stuff
(for translation dictionaries).
British National Corpus
- can search
for word or phrase.
Names from the US census.
Links to various resources at the
alt.usage.english
site.
UsingEnglish (irregular verbs, phrasal verbs).
Greek Lexicon Project
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Text Encoding Initiative
Zipf's law.
Zipf's law bibliography.
Online texts |
Digital Librarian - lots of links.
Links at SIL.
Texts at Athena (English, French and other).
Texts in English
(Project Gutenberg).
Texts in English
(Project Gutenberg). See Browse Catalog for a list of other languages.
Online Books Page.
Books Online.
The Online Literature Library.
The Literature Network.
Read Print.
Bibliomania.
The Free Library.
Adelaide.
Virginia.
Virginia.
Literature Post.
Wikisource.
Underground - a recent novel, in ISO-Latin-1.
Internet Public Library.
French texts at ABU.
Texts in German.
Russian
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read about ) |
Russian (OREL) |
Russian |
Russian |
Russian (links)
Ukrainian.
Hawaiian.
Esperanto |
Esperanto
Oxford Text Archive
- some free texts.
Rosetta Project.
And finally |
Taught languages in various countries, by Hendrik Biebeler, posted to sci.lang on 27th July 2001.
And now there's this (Word).