Spell Letters English Alphabet

Each letter of the english alphabet can be spelled as itself e g a dj or t shirt or it can be spelled out using its name e g a deejay or tee shirt.

Spell letters english alphabet. Spell on the phone in english. Vocabulary for esl learners and teachers. Alphabet practice for spelling is designed to review the pronunciation of letters for accurate spelling.

This page lists the letters of the english alphabet from a to z. The modern english alphabet is a latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters each having an upper and lower case form. A spelling alphabet word spelling alphabet voice procedure alphabet radio alphabet or telephone alphabet is a set of words used to stand for the letters of an alphabet in oral communication.

Unlike the german alphabet there are no umlauts such as ü or ö and unlike the french alphabet there are no accent marks. A b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. A spelling alphabet is also often called a phonetic alphabet especially by amateur radio enthusiasts 1 recreational sailors in the us and australia 2 and nato military organizations.

To provide correct information between people with a different language background one might use a spelling alphabet where every letter and number is described by a word like america for a banana for b and so on. It s an easy lesson but worth reviewing to refresh your pronunciation and accuracy for ielts listening section 1. Z zɛd british english and ziː in u s english.

The lower case letters of the english alphabet are as follows. Letters icao itu nato spelling alphabet a. While many sites attempt to spell alphabetic characters phonetically a ay o oh u yu the true names of the letters of the english alphabet according to the american heritage dictionary are.

Sometimes it is just not enough to spell for example a complicated name correctly then you can use a spelling alphabet to do the job. Vowels still stand for themselves and while very rare the plural of vowels are made by adding es. The following table contains all letters spelled according to the international icao itu nato spelling alphabet.