From: c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)
Subject: Re: Phonetic alphabet correction
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:32:33 GMT


From c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)

In article <BtyIK8.8x3@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Richard McGee <dickmc@smoke.brl.mil> writes:
>
>From Richard McGee <dickmc@smoke.brl.mil>
>
>
>
>In 1955 or so, I learned the following:
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>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

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.


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