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Your name in the NATO alphabet

Spell it the way pilots and air traffic control do, letter by letter.

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How it works

The NATO spelling alphabet (officially the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet) is how pilots, controllers and sailors spell words so they survive a bad radio connection. Every letter has an official code word, tested to be unmistakable in noise.

We use the official spellings, which surprise people: Alfa, not Alpha, and Juliett with two Ts. Those spellings are deliberate, chosen so speakers of any language pronounce them correctly.

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