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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Phonetic Alphabets
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 13:04:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 13:04:16 1985
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> I know of two phonetic alphabets.  One begins ABLE, BAKER, CHARLIE ...
> The second is of military origin and begins  ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA

Since there have been a number of responses about the ICAO alphabet
(some even were correct  :-)  I'll not repeat that.  The other alphabet
is the JAN (Joint Army-Navy) alphabet, which became well known because
of World War II.  Here's what I remember of the JAN sequence:

Able       G????     Mike     Sugar     Young
Baker      Howe      Nan      Tare      Zebra
Charlie    Item      Oboe     Unit
Dog        Jig       P???     Victor
Ernest     King      Q???     W???
Fox        Love      R???     Xray      Anyone fill in the blanks?

Regarding the change to ICAO -- the story that I heard claimed that the
major improvement is that the ICAO words were chosen to be pronouncable
regardless of the nationality of the speaker.  (ICAO = International
Civil Aviation Organization).
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug