Today in 1956, the NATO Phonetic Alphabet was first used by the International Civil Aviation Organization to standardize airline pilot-to-tower communications. Not sure what this alphabet is? It's the familiar Alpha-Bravo-Charlie-Delta... system where each letter is represented by a word. What you may not know is that there were several previous versions, dating back to World War I. Previous alphabets were Apples-Butter-Charlie-Duf (what IS a duf?) or even Able-Baker-Charlie-Dog. What this tells us is that languages may change, so you need to continually adapt to be understood, whether it be the airport tower or your customer....
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