Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Sunday 2005-09-11 at 09:33 -0400, James Knott wrote:

> >>>>Wasn't it "zulu"? International spelling code, also aviation code. Mmm,

> >>>No, zulu was for GMT, international time standard.  Zed was used by
> >>>hams to denote the letter z, just as charlie indicates the letter c.
> > 
> >>I thought it was zebra, or is that just the armed forces?
> > 
> > Depending on where you are it is zulu, zebra, zed and I'm sure there are a
> > lot others. 
> > 
> 
> Not according to the NATO and ICAO.  Radio amateurs are supposed to use
> only that standard.

It can not be "zebra" for an international code, as that animal is spelled 
"cebra", with "C", in some languages, for example in Spanish. The 
internationall spell code is designed with words chosen to be spelled 
similarly in as many languages as possible: the first letter must not give 
confussion. Remember that it is used by people with a limited knowledge of 
English, and for which it is very importantnot to not confuse a landing 
strip for a road, say :-p

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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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