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Alfa-Bravo-Charlie — All About Spelling Alphabets (And Why We Might Need A New One)

WORDS Posted: July 18, 2019 11:04 am

“As mobile phones have replaced landlines, call quality has, strangely, gone down. The general connectivity of the world — including the ease of international video calls and the use of foreign call centers — means that spelling out a name or word is an increasingly common practice. A modern, updated, globally friendly English spelling alphabet would be pretty useful right now, but getting people to use one might be harder than you’d think.” – Atlas Obscura

WORDS Published: 07.12.19

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