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From: john@ektools.UUCP (John H. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: reading hexadecimal out loud, etc
Message-ID: <857@ektools.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 08:40:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 08:40:53 1987
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Reply-To: john@ektools.UUCP (John H. Hall)
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In article <5486@utcsri.UUCP> greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:
>In article <1632@chinet.UUCP> editor@chinet.UUCP (Alex Zell) writes:
>>Whenever I came to an entry such as "B000" or "F000" I would pronounce
>>"boo" or "foo"  and would be corrected by son Pete: "No, you should
>> ...
>You should always spell it out, fox-zero-zero-zero, or baker-zero-zero-zero,
                                  ^                       ^
                                  ^                       ^
You're showing your age:      * FOXTROT *             * BRAVO *

>Ever wonder why we have such good names for the digits and such lousy ones
>for the letters? B,C,D,E,G,P,T,V,Z in particular.

True, that's why NATO, the ICAO, and others have better names for them:
BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, GOLF, PAPA, TANGO, VICTOR, ZULU.
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John Hall, Supervisor: Software Tools Group, Software Engineering Laboratory
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 901 Elmgrove Rd., Rochester, NY 14650,  716 726-9345
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John Hall, Supervisor: Software Tools Group, Software Engineering Laboratory
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 901 Elmgrove Rd., Rochester, NY 14650,  716 726-9345
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