alpha bravo charlie delta echo fox-trot golf hotel india juliet kilo lima mike november oscar papa quebec romeo sierra tango uniform victor whisky x-ray yankee zulu
able baker charlie dog easy fox - were AFAIK part of the phonetic alphabet used for the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord (aka D-Day) on June 6 1944, towards the end of World War II. On 05/10/2021 02:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > 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 > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
