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From: dickmc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Dick McGee )
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Phonetic Alphabets
Message-ID: <8624@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 15:28:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 15:28:38 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:40:18 EST
References: <365@wnuxb.UUCP> <384@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: dickmc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Dick McGee (MMW) <dickmc>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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In article <384@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> 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).
>-- 
>Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug

	ABLE		HOW		OBOE		VICTOR
	BAKER		ITEM		PETER		WILLIAM
	CHARLIE		JIG		QUEEN		XRAY
	DOG		KING		ROGER		YOKE
	EASY		LOVE		SUGAR		ZEBRA
	FOX		MIKE		TARE
	GEORGE		NAN		UNCLE