![]() This entry was posted in Tools and tagged French, German, Microsoft Word, resources, Spelling on by Amanda. The (International) Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet. The ICAO phonetic alphabet has assigned the 26 code words to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. France’s is also not standardised and the variations can be found at. These can be found online for example at. show the letter B in a national spelling alphabet. LetterĪustria and Switzerland have a slightly different code to the Germany one. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO phonetic alphabet code for the letter B. As non-native speakers of English may not pronounce the ph of Alpha correctly, an f is used likewise there is a second t on Juliett because French users may leave the single t silent. Interesting fact: Alfa and Juliett are not spelled incorrectly, they are ‘non-English spellings’. The first iteration of a spelling alphabet was created by the International Civil Aviation Organization in the mid-1920s to facilitate safe and efficient air traffic communication, evolved until the mid-1950s and has been the spelling standard for virtually all national and international organisations since the 1960s. They are used to spell words when people speak over the radio or telephone, when people from different countries are speaking with different accents, or in other situations where people may not clearly hear the normal names of the letters. This spelling alphabet was introduced by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in the 1950s to aid communication by telephone or radio by assigning code words to letters that could be understood regardless of language barrier and possible transmission static. The NATO phonetic alphabet is a set of code words for the letters of the Latin alphabet. Might frame them like my ALT codes for quick and easy access too.Īlthough called the ‘NATO phonetic alphabet’, it’s actually a ‘spelling’ alphabet and not the same as the International Phonetic Alphabet (). Naturally, being a translator, my first thought was, what are the French and German phonetic alphabets? And how useful would they have been on placement when I was trying to write down phone messages and names! Why weren’t we taught them?…so back in the office, I looked them up and thought I would share them here. Enjoying a leisurely walk along The Esplanade in Weymouth last month, I came across these pedalos with phonetic ‘names’.
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