Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Michael W Cocke <cocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:54:16 -0500, you wrote:

>* Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx> [09-11-05 07:45]:
>> 
>> Wasn't it "zulu"? International spelling code, also aviation code. Mmm, 
>> not too international, it lacks words for special letters... ç, ñ, ü...
>> 
>
>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 won't claim to be the ultimate authority, but when I learned the
phonetic alphabet used by pilots, it was Zulu.

Mike-

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