NATO phonetic alphabet
Punctuation marks are only rarely spoken out loud in situations that call for the NATO spelling alphabet. If the period or comma in a sentence needs to be said, they are read as stop  and comma . (...) are brackets on  and brackets off ; "..." are quote  and unquote . "-" is hyphen , not "dash"; "/" is slant . Others are given their normal English readings as colon, semi-colon, exclamation mark, question mark and apostrophe.