On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:46:50 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >I find that a lot, that tech-support people are fine with alpha-bravo-charlie. > Most other people have to think about it; one is reduced to saying "em as in >mike, vee as in victor, ess as in sierra" and so on. > Emergency responders haven't time for that.
> ... I'm long supposed that tech-support people, and their ilk (sysprogs > for instance), often have to spell things so they've acquainted themselves > with a good way of doing it. > When I got in the field, I heard Able, Baker,Charlie, Dog, Eazy, Fox. (WWII?) That's all that was needed. > ... (There's an ASCII adaptation of the IPA that's actually pretty handy. > Only problem is, no one's ever seen it, except a few of us geeks. If we all > understood that you could have written "/aI Ef ti/", without fear of > ambiguity.) > But no good for audio. If I need to spell something out for local authorities, I use the modal NATO codes. I don't carry all their wallet cards. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
