On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:54:16 -0500, you 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 won't claim to be the ultimate authority, but when I learned the phonetic alphabet used by pilots, it was Zulu. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.