What about the infamous rugby song A is for Arsehole?
(no link provided because of sexism and NSFW reasons)
Douchebag alert!
Fun fact - before 1955 the US phonetic alphabet was different:
Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox George How Item
Jig King Love Mike Nan Oboe Peter Queen Roger
Sugar Tare Uncle Victor William X-ray Yoke Zebra
Apparently only Charlie, Mike, Victor and Xray remain.
Sauce - the infallible Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Military_phonetic_spelling_alphabets
Unrelated: Did you post on Dysfunctional Family Circus a lot back in the day?
One of our favs while serving (and after) was the 1-Delta-10-Tango c/s 
Honestly thought this was Lemur until just now.
Didn’t realize that. but I expect I’ll say it “Lye-mah” till the day I die.
FYI, there is also technically a counterpart for numbers. Most are just the word of the number (e.g., 0 = zero, 1 = one), with a few exceptions.
9 = niner (I just assumed when I’d seen/heard that it was someone being silly)
3 = tree ???
4 = fo-war ???
I do expect you’d get funny looks in the grocery store if you asked for Lee-muh beans.
These are useful to know, too.
Why cant you hear a Pterodactyl using the bathroom? Because the P is silent!
Zero, Wun, too, tree, fo-wer, fife (never said during a countdown), six, sev-uhn, eight, nin-er
I was my commanders RTO back in the day. We used an automated SOI but during training kept all the callsigns the same instead of changing them daily. So, I told my CDR his callsign was India Delta One Zero Tango. He used it for over a year, and didn’t catch on until he wrote it in an OPORD. He was furious, but by then had forgotten that he had gotten it from me.
That is a bucket of awesome right there–BZ, brother, BZ
IIRC, it’s to prevent confusion with the German nein.
“Heave a brick” (e.g. through a window)
It had never occurred to me to pronounce it any other way.
The Brits used that (and B Beer^) into WWII. They changed when being able to work reliably and effectively with the US mil became a thing, and adopted the US system. But, as you say, there are hangovers that persist to this day - a forward observer’s assistant is still known as an ‘Ack’, because they used to officially be known (i.e., their MOS) as an Observation Post Assistant, a.k.a. OPA, a.k.a. OP-Ack. They also tend to say “ack” a lot, as part of the rigorous process of checking each other’s work.
^ and I weep for it’s demise
