Re: PL/I vs. JCL

[Joe Monk]

alpha
bravo
charlie
delta
echo
foxtrot
golf
hotel
india
juliet
kilo
mike
november
oscar
papa
quebec ("kay-bec")
romeo
sierra
tango
uniform
victor
whiskey
xray
yankee
zulu

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:21 PM CM Poncelet <ponce...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:

> able baker charlie dog easy fox
>
> On 04/10/2021 15:10, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:35:39 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, I give up.  I have favorite-newscaster stories, too, but I don't
> get this one.  What's an EFT cargo hatch?  Is this so obvious a failure
> that I'll be required by law to kick myself when it's explained to me, or
> something that only pilots know, or what?
> >>
> > I struggled for vernacular phonetic vowel names and apparently failed.
> >
> > If the newscaster had been an aviator he couldd have said Alfa Foxtrot
> Tango.
> > But an aviator or a mariner wouldn't have needed to.
> >
> > I believe he said in defense that it appeared in caps in his script.
> But if that
> > came off a teletype everything would have been caps.
> >
> > I once recited a serial number to Tech Support using NATO phonetic
> alphabet.
> > She understood immediately; no request for clarification.  Perhaps she
> was
> > a veteran.  Why can't local emergency services concur on a phonetic
> alphabet?
> >
> > -- gil
> >
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