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International Phonetic Alphabet
I was initially merely going to quibble with your statement that the International Phonetic Alphabet began Able, Baker, Charlie believing it to begin Alpha, Bravo, Charlie but in the course of finding documentary evidence to back this claim up I am now being forced to quibble my own quibble!

The International Phonetic Alphabet in fact is intended as a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages. It is not the alphabet used in radiotelephony at all.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

What is commonly referred to as the Phonetic Alphabet should properly be called the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), also known as the NATO Phonetic alphabet and begins Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. As this is the one used by aviators world wide it has a far better claim to the title 'international' than the Able, Baker, Charlie system referred to in the article which seems to be a system used exclusively by the US Navy dating from the 1940's.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html

I think that's enough quibbling for now.

Cheers Jay,

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Posted: 09/01/2004 @ 04:02 AM (PDT)
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International Phonetic AlphabetKingsley_Aimless | 09/01/2004 @ 04:02 AM (PDT)
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