Developed with the intention to spell a word accurately when speaking on the telephone or other communication system avoiding confusion in conversations.
Used by the American Federal Communications Comission (FCC), The Radiocommunications Agency, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO), Police, Maritime units, Aircraft, and Amateur Radio Operators.

One Hundred Years Of Spelling
by Ed Arias

Many years later, as he faced the spelling squad, Alpha Bravo Charlie was to remember that distant afternoon when his Papa took him to discover echo. At that time Lima was a golf course of twenty holes, built on the delta of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.  The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to spell them it was necessary to point. Every year during the month of November a family of ragged zulus would set up their tents near the Sierra Hotel, and with a great uproar, whisky, tango and foxtrot they would display new inventions. First they brought the Kilo. A heavy zulu with a Yankee uniform and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Mike, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the X-ray of the Quebec Act of India. Oscar Victor, whose unbridled imagination always went beyond the genius of nature and even beyond miracles and magic, thought that it would be possible to make use of that useless invention to extract phonemes from "Romeo and Juliet".

Copyright © 1999 Ed Arias.
In honor of "One Hundred Years Of Solitude"
Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez.