Phonetic Alphabet

[MTS2000des]

Wouldn't EAM's be so much more interesting if they used the "funky" phonetic alphabet?
"Larry.... Elephant.... Cigar.... stand by..."

That sounds like what some of our officers do. I am not making this up.
"A as in apple....uh G as in Gary...uh uh uh R Ronald...uh uh"

 

[WA8ZTZ]

One Adam Twelve, see the man, Two Twenty-five Main Street, he will point out a ham using wrong phonetics.

 

[merlin]

How does one discern if Julie[tt] was spoken with one 't' or two 't's?

Awful simple,,it phonetic for the character "J"

 

[merlin]

Don't get me started about people who say "kilowatt" when they give a phonetic for "k". When I hear this, I write "KW" every time. And, no, my callsign is not "AKW9R".

ABLE-KILOWATT-NINER-ROMEO / FROM / KILOWATT-SIXER-IDA-NORA
Old school, but how would you mistake that ?

 

[merlin]

Wait til you get a load of the code talkers. Sounds more like Huttese.

 

[KD7RJC]

My post was only about the ITU and NATO phonetic alphabet and that there were reasons for those spellings.. Some of the others are based on mistakes of these and some are just different phonetic alphabets and unrelated. But if one claims a list is ITU or NATO, they should get it right. I am amazed how many disagree but yet are sticklers for other rules.

APCO radiotelephony spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It's changed on and off through the years as many of the Adam-12 references jocularly refer to.

At one point some officially wrote Alpha and Juliet. Part of the reason for the NATO adoption of a standard was so that as different languages used the phonetic alphabet, there weren't issues with words sounding so sufficiently different that mutual intelligibility would suffer. It only matters if the pronunciation is sufficient to enable accuracy of the letters being represented.

It is perfectly valid to point out that its Alfa instead of Alpha, and it's perfectly valid to point out that it's Juliett instead of Juliet. It's also a nitpick that would leave even hardcore science fiction fans asking why one is bothering.

 

[merlin]

Hmm. None of the phonetics were intended for written text. hence the term "PHONETICS" [PHONE - ETICS]

(MY two cents)