The Genius Logic of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet How It Was Created & How It Works

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News Summary

  • YouTu­ber Rob Watts explains the devel­op­ment of and log­ic behind the NATO pho­net­ic alpha­bet.
  • The idea of expressing each let­ter with a com­mon word start­ing with that let ­ter arose nat­u­ral­ly, though fig­ur­ing out exact­ly which words to use took a lot more tri­al and error.
  • In the ear­ly nine­teen-tens, West­ern Union pub­lished a spelling alpha­ bet con­sist­ing most­ly of the names of peo­ple and places.
Most of us can rattle off the first few wordsthatstandforletters of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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