On 2024-03-01, Ross Clark wrote:
Also known as the "NATO Phonetic Alphabet".
Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima
Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor
Whiskey X-ray Yankee Zulu
The whole complex history and variations here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
One of Spike Milligan's war memoirs (I think it's the first one,
_Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall_) mentions the British Army
changing from Apple Beer or Ack something to the Able Baker version.
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Thinking about her this morning, lying in bed, and trying to get my
thoughts on the right track, I reached into the drawer of the bedstand,
and found the Gideons' Bible, and I was going for the Psalms, friend, honest
I was, but I found the Song of Solomon instead. ---Garrison Keillor
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