Ack, Beer, Kilogramme, Uppsala, Xanthippe and other words that saved lives and led to our current phonetic alphabet.

learned the phonetic alphabet in basic training to communicate with each other. Anyone involved or interested in the aviation industry has heard someone echo the words Alpha, Bravo, Charlie ...

Memorise and practise using the useful alfa bravo charlie-style phonetic alphabet, used worldwide to make it easier to spell words over the radio. That might clear up one confusion, but the best way ...