The Mainframe Pages: Phonetic Alphabet
Traditional
Proposed
| alpha | Aesop |
| bravo | bdellium |
| Charlie | Cereus |
| delta | djin |
| echo | étude |
| foxtrot | faze |
| golf | gneiss |
| hotel | hour |
| India | iwis |
| Juliet | Juanita |
| kilo | knot |
| Lima | lavalava |
| Mike | mnemonic |
| November | nock |
| Oscar | Oedipus |
| papa | Ptolomy |
| Quebec | Quito |
| Romeo | razzmatazz |
| Sierra | sgrafito |
| tango | tzar |
| uniform | uvea |
| victor | vile |
| whiskey | write |
| x-ray | Xavier |
| yankee | ytterbic |
| zulu | zloty |
Every systems programmer I have worked with will pronounce the address X'1FC' as "One-Fox-Charlie." This strikes me as extremely boring, so I have provided the traditional phonetic alphabet as a reference for anyone who needs it, as well as a proposed alphabet for those who are not mired in tradition.
The traditional alphabet, originally created by NATO, has now been adopted by the Alliace for Telecommunications Industry Standards (ATSI).
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/