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Day 4AlphabetNumeralsSpeaking Drills

Alphabet

•Why is there a special alphabet?▫Because some letters sound too similar▫Over the radio it’s more difficult to hear the

slight differences between some letters•Examples:

B vs V G vs Z

D vs T M vs N

F vs S

The AlphabetLETTER PHONETI

CLETTER PHONETI

CLETTER PHONETI

C

A ALFA J JULIETT S SIERRA

B BRAVO K KILO T TANGO

C CHARLIE L LIMA U UNIFORM

D DELTA M MIKE V VICTOR

E ECHO N NOVEMBER

W WHISKEY

F FOXTROT O OSCAR X X-RAY

G GOLF P PAPA Y YANKEE

H HOTEL Q QUEBEC Z ZULU

I INDIA R ROMEO

SPEAKING PRACTICELet’s go through the alphabet a few times

Numerals (FIGURES)Numeral

Spoken as Numeral

Spoken as

0 ZEE-ROH 5 FIFE

1 WUN 6 SIX

2 TOO 7 SEV-UN

3 TREE 8 AIT

4 FOW-ER 9 NINE-ER

More Numerals (FIGURES)Figure Spoken as

44 FOW-ER FOW-ER

500 FIFE ZE-ROH ZE-ROH

7000 SEV-UN ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH (or SEV-UN TOU-SAND)Notice: no H in thousand TOU-SAND

16,000 WUN SIX ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH (or WUN-SIX TOUSAND)

14,899 WUN FOW-ER AIT NINE-ER NINE-ER

123.6 WUN-TOO-TREE DAY-SEE-MAL SIX

Telling Time

•Always send date time groups (DTGs) digit-by-digit, preceded by the proword TIME:

•This DTG means June 08, 2012, at 2 pm, Zulu time zone (Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)).

081400Z JUN 12 TIME - ZE-ROH AIT WON FOW- ER ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZOO-LOO JUNE WUN TOO

SPEAKING PRACTICELet’s go through the numerals (FIGURES) a few times

QuestionsNext week: PROWORDS (Appendix B)