While you might think people are just picking random words—and indeed some might be—there is actually a defined military phonetic alphabet that was established over the first half of the 1900s ...

The Military Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet. A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are ...

military, some of which you may be familiar with. "Alfa, Bravo, Charlie …" is an alphabet you may already know and understand. These words represent the letters A, B, and C in the International ...