Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot (the NATO phonetic alphabet)

1. Do you like the NATO phonetic alphabet?

2. Do you ever use it?

3. If you could change it (none of us can, at least not officially), what changes would you make?

I would only make 3 changes.
I would have M be Mama (since P is Papa). NATO uses Mike
G = Gertrude. NATO uses Golf
K = Kangaroo. NATO uses Kilo

Everything else is cute in my opinion.

Edited: Corrected alpha to alfa (Thanks Willowy) (The correction is not showing up in The Cat Lounge for whatever reason)

I always wondering about this.. sounds very cute an nice...


Now I wondering this,.... what if we put our NATO name as well we would be call...I mean this....

My real name BEGINS with R .......SO ...as well this I´m ROMEO!...

Who´s next?...

REmember just your first letter & the Nato name!...

Originally Posted by c1atsite

1. Do you like the NATO phonetic alphabet?

2. Do you ever use it?

3. If you could change it (none of us can, at least not officially), what changes would you make?

I would only make 3 changes.
I would have M be Mama (since P is Papa). NATO uses Mike
G = Gertrude. NATO uses Golf
K = Kangaroo. NATO uses Kilo

Everything else is cute in my opinion.

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The hospital I used to work at used some of the Phonetic alphabet when they were paging, in order to make clear certain aspects of the page such as the letter of the ward... IE: A wing, C wing, D wing etc.

And many years ago I used to know morse code. Don't remember it at all anymore. It was back when I was a kid and interested in spy stuff

It can be very helpful, actually. I use it fairly regularly, having first been exposed to it when DH was still flying. It becomes habit before long, and even people who are not familiar with it usually catch on quickly. I don't see any need to change anything.

I used to know the entire alphabet. My dad was in the Navy and I was interested in that kind of thing. I can still do very well but I miss a few (I can never remember what the word is for N. Or Q).

Worth noting---it's Alfa, not Alpha.....I don't know why. Or at least that's the way I learned it. Plus, the point of having words for letters is because many letters sound alike (ever said to someone on the phone "S, not F!"?). So the words were chosen so they don't sound like anything else. I don't think they could change any of them.

We use it driving cabs on Camp Lejeune. Many of the streets are lettered, so it comes in handy.

I never use it myself. A couple of the client who regularly call in at work though always crack me up. One always says "U-as in underwear!" and another says "X-as in X-O-phone". What in the hell is an x-o-phone?

Michelle, a girl I work with, told me she once got "K-as in knee."

Me and my grandpa used to use it all the time. I knew the entire alphabet by the time I was 8 I don't think I would change it because it's just so familiar to me.

I never use it, and somehow I am bothered when people use it to spell names on the phone. I don't know what it is, it just seems too impersonal, like I'm talking to a machine..
I remember playing COD modern warfare 2- and they used it on there, and it took my brain a little while to catch on because they said it soo quickly and I had to make out the word really fast too, and I remember cursing the makers of the game for putting it there lol

My father taught it (and the Morse code) to my sister and I when we were little. I use it frequently when speaking on the phone...It really comes in handy. My ex-husband is a pilot, and I was already quite familiar with it from childhood, so I wasn't confused when hearing the tower calling aircraft registration numbers. I remember the number 9 being spoken "Niner" (and sometimes find myself saying that if I'm calling a report, such as bloodwork numbers, etc.)

Originally Posted by Willowy

Worth noting---it's Alfa, not Alpha.....I don't know why.

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this is what wikipedia said, I actually happened to click on the link in the original post

In most versions of the alphabet, the non-English spellings Alfa and Juliett are found. Alfa is spelled with an f as it is in most European languages. The English and French spelling alpha would not be properly pronounced by speakers of some other languages whose native speakers may not know that ph should be pronounced as f. Juliett is spelled with a tt for native French speakers because they may otherwise treat a single final t as silent. In English versions of the alphabet, like that from ANSI or the version used by the British armed forces and emergency services, one or both may revert to their standard English spelling.

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Originally Posted by Kailie

Michelle, a girl I work with, told me she once got "K-as in knee."

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See, on a stressful busy day, that one might throw me for a loop My friend Jaclyn likes to say "S as in salad" (She's a bit weight-obsessed and considers salad a weapon in the battle of the bulge. Was it Freud who said whatever's on our mind is what we wanna talk about?) I happen to say "O as in orange" because there's an O in my last name --I say it alot because my name gets misspelled soooo often.

Originally Posted by Willowy

Worth noting---it's Alfa, not Alpha...

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Originally Posted by ut0pia

this is what wikipedia said, I actually happened to click on the link in the original post

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Thanks Willowy- I fixed it. Quite frankly I didnt even know this system was from NATO until Wikipedia. I simply assumed it was a U.S.A. Armed Forces thing. oh yeah and also used on the show Cops

Originally Posted by CoolCat

I always wondering about this..

sounds very cute an nice...

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I´m ROMEO!...

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Rigel baby, long before this thread was created you were the Romeo of TCS and always will be

I used to use it all the time when i worked in the motor trade, because of the car registrations

I use it when spelling a name / street etc on the phone but sometimes I forget and make up a word.

I find here that many people match up the Q for Quebec with other provinces or even cities so you also get O for Ontario, S for Saskatchewan, T for Toronto etc or they use the greek alphabet Alfa Beta, and then get stuck because they jump up to Gamma

Originally Posted by Kailie

I never use it myself. A couple of the client who regularly call in at work though always crack me up. One always says "U-as in underwear!" and another says "X-as in X-O-phone". What in the hell is an x-o-phone?

Michelle, a girl I work with, told me she once got "K-as in knee."

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This sounds like me...I make up whatever word I want

A for apple, B for boy C for couch...etc...

I've always meant to learn that, not that I need it though.