Two television series (and a comic book adaptation by Charlton comics) were named "Adam-12", the radio call sign for the patrol car the two main characters were assigned to. The theme song to the original series was prefaced with simulated radio traffic which began with the call "One Adam Twelve". The NATO phonetic alphabet is referred to repeatedly in Robert Ludlum's novel The Bourne Identity. The phrase Cain is for Charlie and Delta is for Cain is repeated, always italicised, ...

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The NATO phonetic alphabet is referred to repeatedly in Robert Ludlum's novel The Bourne Identity. The phrase Cain is for Charlie and Delta is for Cain is repeated, always italicised, to symbolise the messages relayed to the main character during the Vietnam war. The nickname "Charlie" used by US servicemen in the Vietnam War is derived from "Victor Charlie", the NATO phoneticism for the initials of the Viet Cong, the armed insurgents in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The name of sports car manufacturer Alfa Romeo is sometimes believed to represent the initials AR in ...

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The pronunciation of the words in the alphabet as well as numbers may vary according to the language habits of the speakers. In order to eliminate wide variations in pronunciation, posters illustrating the pronunciation desired are available from the ICAO. Unless otherwise specified, the spelling and pronunciation given is that officially prescribed by the ICAO, ITU, IMO, and the FAA. The ICAO indicates unstressed numeric syllables in lower case (stressed in UPPER CASE), unlike its own alphabet, where stressed syllables are UNDERLI ...

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Voice procedure refers to techniques used to clarify, simplify and standardize spoken communications over two-way radios, in use by the military, in civil aviation, police and fire dispatching systems, citizens' band radio, etc. Voice procedure is intended to maximise clarity of spoken communication and reduce misunderstanding. It consists of signalling protocol such as the use of 'over', 'roger' and 'stand by'; use of so-called phonetic alphabet words like 'alpha', 'bravo', 'charlie'; abbreviated codes like the CB radio ten-code, Q Codes in amate ...

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Charlie has multiple meanings: It represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet and the FAA aviation phonetic letters. It refers to a car in police CB code. Charlie was slang used by members of the United States armed forces when talking about the enemy during the Vietnam War. It is an abbreviation of Victor Charlie, which was the NATO phonetic alphabet abbreviation for Viet Cong. A charlie is slang for a silly or easily fooled person, and an example of Cockney rhymi

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T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is tee. Tâw was the last letter of the Western Semitic alphabet — and of the Hebrew alphabet. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), and Old Italic alphabet and Latin T was IPA /t/. T - Alternative representations. Tango represents the letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter T is Da ...

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U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. U was originally a positional variant of the letter V, as J was of I, used only in lower-case writing and only medially, and representing both the vowels now written with U and the consonants now written with V. The use of the two forms to distinguish the consonants and vowels which they now represent was not standardised until modern times. U - Alternative representations. Uniform represents the letter U in the NATO phonetic alphabet, ...

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Papa can refer to: The letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Name of mother Earth according to Polynesian mythology. See Papa (mythology). A South Korean drama. See Papa (drama). In Hinduism, bad merits that occur due to bad deeds. The town of Pápa in Hungary. The word "father" or a variation of it, in many languages (see below). The Spanish word for potato (in some dialects) and slang for "food". (in uppercase and with the definite article) the Spanish and ...

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O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is o, plural o's or oes. O - History. The letter was derived from the Semitic 'Ajin (eye) which represented a consonant, probably the pharyngeal consonant (IPA ʕ) similar to the Arabic letter ع called 'Ajn', but in Greek (Omicron), Etruscan and Latin it came to be used for the vowel /o/. O ...

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The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a, plural ās or aes. A - History. The letter A probably started as a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet. By 1600 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the basis for all later forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew aleph. The name is also similar to the Arabic alif. When the Ancient Greeks ad ...

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The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is dee. D - History. The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /ð/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still maintained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta). The minuscule (lower-case) form of D, consisting of a loop and a tall vertical stroke, de ...

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The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. Its name in English is jay. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [j] represents the palatal approximant. It is also the only letter not to appear in the Periodic Table. On keyboards, the F and J keys generally have a raised bar (perceptible to the touch) over them to assist in touch typing. All other keys can be found with their relative positions around these two keys as the index finger is generally ...

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V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is vee. Like F and the Greek letter Upsilon (also spelled Ypsilon), V evolved from the Phoenician letter Waw. In Etruscan it was simplified to V and had the sound value /u/, but since F came to represent /f/ in Latin rather than /w/, the Romans used V for both /w/ and /u/, as in EQVVS. In some Roman handwriting styles, it was written as a modern uppercase V, while in others like uncial it resembled modern lowercase uIncluding:

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N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is en. Semitic Nûn was probably the picture of a snake; the sound value of the letter was /n/ - as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin and all modern languages. Greek name: Nυ, Ny. N - Usage. N serves as an alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with N is NG, which produces a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually final in English. Aspirated forms NH and NGH are sometim ...

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The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is bee. B - History. The letter B probably started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet. By 1500 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the basis for all later forms, which appeared in both the angular and more rounded forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew beth. When the Ancient Greeks adopte ...

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The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K, or k comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. The Semitic soundish value /k/ was maintained in most Classic as well as Modern Languages, although Latin abandoned K almost completely, preferring C. Therefore, the Romance languages have K only in foreign words. Its name in English is kay. In the International phonetic alphabet, [k] is the symbol for the voiceless velar plosive. K - Alternative re ...

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W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is double-u. The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this <uu> digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, the sound usually being represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 ...

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A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 100-200 soldiers. Most companies are formed of three or four platoons although the exact number may vary by country, unit type and structure. Company military unit - US Army. In the United States military, infantry companies are usually made up of three rifle platoons and a heavy weapons platoon; tank companies are usually made up of three tank platoons and a command element. By tradition, an artillery "company" is always called a batt ...

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I is the ninth letter in the Latin alphabet. I - History. The letter I derived from the Greek iota (Ι, ι). It stood for the vowel /i/, the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek) /j/ (as English Y in YOKE) was added. In Semitic, /j/ was the usual sound value of Jôd (probably originally a pictogram for an arm with hand), /i/ only in foreign words. In English, I represents different sounds, among them a diphthong that developed from /i:/ as well as short, open /I/ as in BIL ...

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