I hear they have some nice ones in India!
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Juliet was there, to lose a few Kilos. Now she’s in Lima with Mike.
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Meh, it won’t last long, by November she’ll be with Oscar, just ask Papa.
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Fortunately, wine is served at most milongas, and no one would begrudge you a discreet flask, but it’s a demanding dance so I wouldn’t have more than one drink. Foxtrot isn’t quite as fun, but it’s much simpler.
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Of course there is one for Japanese as well
Since locals find my name hard to spell, some years ago I made a valiant effort to use this but the problem is it just isnt common knowledge. I ended up finding other phonetics that work pretty well on the phone.
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Thought I replied - don’t see it. Atlanta ground calls the central N/S taxiway “Dixie”.
Maybe because of all the Delta’s taxiing around, maybe because it’s Atlanta.
O.M.G! I’m going to copy this and keep it handy for phone scammers. Trouble is, after two or three characters I’d be pissing myself laughing so much they’d catch on. Which is kinda the point, I know, but all the same…
As regards using the phonetic alphabet, over the last three years or so it’s something I’ve used on a regular basis because my job is logistics applied to moving ex-lease cars around, and the registration numbers and occasionally chassis/VIN numbers have to be given over phone and radio, and with a wide variety of regional accents here in the U.K., along with foreign accents, communications can become a little vexed, shall we say, trying to read out a string of alphanumerics.
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Wrong. It’s not the NATO alphabet. Created and standardized bu the ICAO (International CIvil Aviation Organization). Let’s demilitarize the alphabet.
Nope. Adopted, not created:
“It is interesting to note that the first internationally recognized phonetic alphabet was adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Radio Conference in 1927 and was for use by the maritime mobile service; such alphabet assigns code words to each letter of the alphabet (i.e. Alfa for A, Bravo for B, etc.), so that critical combinations of letters (and numbers) can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language, especially when the safety of navigation or persons is essential. The experience gained with that alphabet resulted in several changes being made by the 1932 Radio Conference of ITU. The resulting alphabet was adopted by the International Commission for Air Navigation (ICAN), the predecessor of ICAO, and was used in civil aviation until World War II.”
Source: ICAO
https://www.icao.int/secretariat/PostalHistory/annex_10_aeronautical_telecommunications.htm
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