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Mahan_...@lanmail.ncsc.navy.mil

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Aug 21, 1992, 9:18:21 AM8/21/92
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From Mahan_...@lanmail.ncsc.navy.mil


A few issues ago you listed the phonetic alphabet in response to a
question by a poster. Excellent job until the last letter, which is
zulu instead of zebra in both the USAF and Ham Radio phonetic alphabets.

[mod note -- being a pilot, I should have caught that, but I guess my
fingers just got ahead of my brain. However, does anybody out there know
the phonetic alphabet that was used before the current one? The one that
starts able, baker, charlie, dog......

Steve]


steve
former USAF
KD4NGU

Richard McGee

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Sep 2, 1992, 11:19:19 AM9/2/92
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From Richard McGee <dic...@smoke.brl.mil>

In 1955 or so, I learned the following:

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


Dick

Tuomas Viljanen

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Sep 4, 1992, 12:32:33 PM9/4/92
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From c34...@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)

This is the "Able-Baker" -code, and it has been, as far as I know, dropped out
in favor of the "Alfa-Bravo" -code. I found in the Helsinki telephone catalog
the following telephone alphabet codes for Finnish, Swedish and English.
Finnish and Swedish "g":s are always hard, like "golf" unless otherwise ment-
ioned. "J" is always like English "Y". I do not anything about the validity of
these codes, though.

letter Finnish name Swedish name English name

A Arne (AAR-neh) Adam (AA-dahm) Apple (AP'pl)
B Bertta (BERT-ta) Bertil (BERT-till) Betty (BEti)
C Celsius (SEL-sius) Cesar (SEH-sar) Charlie (TSHAA-li)
D David (Daa-vid) David (Daa-vid) David (DEI-vid)
E Eemeli (EEH-meh-li) Erik (EEH-rikk) Edward (ED-woord)
F Farao (FAA-rao) Filip (Fii-lipp) Freddy (Fredi)
G Gideon (GII-de-on) Gustav (GUSS-tav) George (DZHoodzh)
H Heikki (HEIK-kih) Helge (Hell-geh) Henry (HHen-ri)
I Iivari (II-varih) Ivar (II-varr) Italy (It'li)
J Jussi (Jussi) Johan (JUUh-hann) John (Dzhonn)
K Kalle (Kal-leh) Kalle (Kal-leh) King (Khing)
L Lauri (Lau-ri) Ludvig (Lud-viig) Leather (LII-ther)
M Matti (MAT-tti) Martin (Mart-tin) Mother (MA-ther)
N Niilo (NII-loh) Niklas (NICK-lass) Nothing (NA-thing)
O Otto (OT-toh) Olof (UU-loff) Orange (O-rindzh)
P Pekka (PEK-kah) Petter (PET-tterr) Peter (PII-terr)
Q Kuu (Kuu) Qvintus (Kvint-tus) Queen (Kwiin)
R Risto (Ris-to) Rudolf (Ruu-dolff) Robert (ROU-bert)
S Sakari (SSA-ka-ri) Sigurd (SII-gurdd) Sugar (Suger)
T Tyyne (Tyy-neh) Tore (TUU-re) Tommy (TOmi)
U Urho (Urr-hoh) Urban (Urr-bann) Uncle (ANkl)
V Vihtori (VIHH-to-ri) Viktor (VIK-tor) Victory (VIktri)
W Viski (Viss-ki) Wilhelm (Vill-helm) William (Will-iam)
X Eks (Eks) Xerxes (Kserr-kses) X-ray (EKS-rei)
Y Yrjo" (Yrr-io") Yngve (Yngg-ve) Yellow (IElou)
Z Zeta (Tseta) Zeta (Tseta) Zero (ZZIE-rou)
A' A'ke (OOK-keh) A'ke (OOK-Keh)
A" A"iti (A"iti) A"rlig (A"a"rlig)
O" O"ljy (O"ll-jyh) O"sten (O"ss-tenn)

The three last letters are indigenous for Scandinavian languages, Finnish, Est-
onian, and a" and o" for German. Letter a' ("a" with a small ring over it) is
named "Swedish O" and it indicates a long, open "O"; a" ("a" with trema), nam-
ed A"a" indicates a wovel like "a" in English word "jam" and o", named O"o"
("o" with trema) indicates a frontal wovel of "o", like "er" in the English
word "her".

Does anyone know the German telephone alphabet ? I would remember they are

ANTON
BERTA
CA"SAR
DORA
EMIL
FRANZ
GUSTAV
HEINRICH..

or something like that.


++ Tuomas Viljanen ++ For a battle like Crecy, you do ++
++ Lahderanta 20 A 19 ++ not need a military genius like ++
++ SF-02720 Espoo 72 FINLAND ++ Edward III. All you need is an ++
++ 358-0-592175 or c34...@saha.hut.fi ++ idiot like the Duke of Alencon. ++

Thomas R. Kimpton

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Sep 11, 1992, 10:01:46 AM9/11/92
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From t...@dtint.dtint.com (Thomas R. Kimpton)

As near as I can remember, here's the Russian (transliterated)
phonetic alphabet:

Anna
Boris
Vladimir
Grigori
Dimitri
Yelyena
Zhenya
Zenaida
Ivan
Kratki (short Ivan)
Konstantin
Leonid
Mikhail
Nikolai
Olga
Pyotr
Raman
Simyon
Tatiana
Uliana
Fyodr
Tsaplye
Shura
Shchuka
Myakhi znak
Tvyordy znak
Eh oborotnaya
Yuli
Yakov

I haven't had much use for these in the last 15 years so, if
anyone remembers better, maybe they can correct them.

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