D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...

The phonetic alphabet is used by many countries when spelling out words, such as calling out "a as in alpha," with many having devised their own. The famous model is the one used by NATO. The German ...

Film historians have found a rare Laurel and Hardy short that the famed comedy duo filmed for German audiences — speaking their lines in phonetic German, according to the Munich Film Museum. The 1931 ...