When pronouncing letters over the phone do you use the NATO phonetic alphabet or make it up?

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#2894435 31-Mar-2022 00:04

Gurezaemon:
If I'm dealing with scammers, I use this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kitboga/comments/s9fdd8/helpful_guide_for_spelling_things_out_for_scammers/

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#2894440 31-Mar-2022 00:17

Daynger:

Archer video, NSFW possibly.

If there is a joke in there somewhere it went right over my head!

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#2894446 31-Mar-2022 00:52

NATO always.

Has nobody mentioned David Tua's O for Awesome?

Also Cockney Alphabet

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#2894487 31-Mar-2022 08:50

Geektastic:

Daynger:

Archer video, NSFW possibly.

If there is a joke in there somewhere it went right over my head!

It rather depends on being familiar with the show Archer. Which IMHO everyone should be, but that's getting off-topic...

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#2894540 31-Mar-2022 09:00

I just repeat the letter louder and louder until they get it. eg. n, EN, EN! a, AY, AY! t, TEE, TEE!. o, OH, OH! NATO. 😀 A bit like the Niki Lauda joke.

Actually, I use NATO.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2894607 31-Mar-2022 11:33

Why do people insist on calling it the NATO alphabet?

It's the ICAO alphabet, or just the international spelling alphabet.

In NZ, NATO isn't really relevant, but the aviation and marine usage certainly is.

I learned it when I was about 10, when my father was studying for a marine ticket. I've used it ever since, sometimes baffling the person I'm talking to. They should teach it in schools.

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#2894615 31-Mar-2022 11:49

lchiu7:
But it seems more natural to say S for Sam than S for Sierra doesn't it?

One doesn't say "S for Sierra", just "Sierra". F. ex. "India Charlie Hotel India Uniform Seven". A more practical example, I might say I spotted Zulu Kilo Oscar Xray Mike, an A320, just leaving Auckland.

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#2894843 31-Mar-2022 16:30

jlittle: Why do people insist on calling it the NATO alphabet?

It's the ICAO alphabet, or just the international spelling alphabet.

Not every B Company private in camouflage knows that, and there are far more of them than there are pilots. These know that. I don't care, I belonged to three teams, the armed, the NATO and the ICAO team. ;-)

Have you ever seen a Swiss military, non NATO, non international phonetic alphabet? No, it‘s not a cipher table.

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#2894846 31-Mar-2022 16:41

When dealing with people at work on crap phone calls I usually just say "is that M for november or N for Mango" just to get the point across that them repeating it 4 times mumbling on their crap cellphone isnt helping.

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