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It is now 50 years since the NATO alphabet was devised. The original intent was to have a system of linguistic purity which would avoid some of the catastrophic misunderstandings arising from communications during the Great War. Listen to this BBC Radio 4 programme
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2006/nato_alphabet.htm
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2006/nato_alphabet.htm