call signs

[Sundae]

Just as an aside, when my Mum joined the Ambulance Service, she had to learn the callsign alphabet. Therefore we learned it along with her. Ste and I still know it very well.

Pretty much everyone except me who knows it since calls it the NATO alphabet, or the phonetic alphabet. I don't care, it's the same thing.

I used it to amuse Tiger and Mars when I worked at school. Tiger was only just beginning to get the concept of initials standing in for names, so it was like a foreign language to him. To Mars, who was older, it was a form of code, like a secret language. I didn't try to teach it to either of them, but both would occasionally ask -unprompted - for me to name another child (Tiger) or spell out a word (Mars)

Tiger cracked up that he was a bean and his friend was an orange drink.