Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 11 September 2005 15:05, Kevanf1 wrote:
On 11/09/05, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
On Sunday 11 September 2005 14:54, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> [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 thought it was zebra, or is that just the armed forces?
The NATO phonetic alphabet states that it is zulu or so this website says... http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/phonetic.htm
http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/meyersde/PhoneticAlphabets.htm
seems I'm 60 or so years out of date. So what else is new :)
No, you have simply been watching too many American war movies :)