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Time to ask for the collective vast knowledge of our forumites.
Yesterday, I had Comcast High Speed Access installed, from Dial-Up Access.

Installer activated the system, I was given a USER name and password. . Won't recognize my user name.
Tel call for help didn't work out. Problem elevated to more learned technicians who are supposed to call me sometime today.

RESEARCH WANTED: I'll eventually get it worked out but WANTED TO find the list of ? letter names? ie,
Alpha , Bravo or Able , Baker, Charlie for conversing with the techs, rather than picking a name out of the air.
What search words would I use to find these lists?

I know our esteemed forumites have this knowledge.
Thanks for any help.

AS far as my sign in problem with Comcast, I took my IE firewall down, Removed my ADWARE SE, McAfee, and Spybot programs at suggestion of the Tech. Still wouldn't recognize my user name. The tech tried it from his end and was successful, but not at my end. I will get it worked out, and put all that stuff back on my computer for safety. I am well pleased with the Hi Speed and connect thru Comcast to AOL @ High Speed. WHAT A DIFFERENCE FROM 26400 TO HIGH SPEED. I just want to sign into the COMCAST program to explore their areas.
 
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Gulf
Hotel
India
Jet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Poppa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Zulu

I guess I learned something in basic 32 years ago after all...

(These are correct according to my memory and the US Army)
 
Nasty - - - - I guess I learned something in basic 32 years ago after all...

Your memory is better than mine. It's been 51 years for me since I was in Basic and haven't used them much for a number of years. Thanks
 
Nasty said:
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Gulf
Hotel
India
Jet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Poppa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Zulu

I guess I learned something in basic 32 years ago after all...

(These are correct according to my memory and the US Army)
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Well, that looks pretty good to me. The International phonetic alphabet I learned when I got my private license has GOLF instead of GULF and JULIETT instead of JET. Add YANKEE and you're set!

Norm
 
Ya'll are right of course...Juliet instead of Jet...Gulf/Golf with my hearing close enough...what the hell happened to Yankee though? That one concerns me. ;)
 
Nasty said:
Ya'll are right of course...Juliet instead of Jet...Gulf/Golf with my hearing close enough...what the hell happened to Yankee though? That one concerns me. ;)
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that one is easy to forget since they left off the normal prefix of 'd@mn' :D
 
Ya mean depending on the branch of service there might not have been many Yankees around but mostly just Southrons?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Ya mean depending on the branch of service there might not have been many Yankees around but mostly just Southrons?
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'Y' was probly selected by a brit, they call us all yankees* - without the prefix, whether or not we're from nawth or south of the mason/dixon line. (the ol' overfed. oversexed, over here british attitude to 'yanks' has not entirely disappeared here, (i live near a big USAF/RAF air base) i have managed to persuade my mother-in-law that we are not all bad (she's a retired british army cook from the officers mess at the artillery school in netheravon (closed now - budget cuts) and i met my wife when she was a steward at the officers mess at upavon near stonehenge) so i gritted my teeth at the 'yank' label for a long while)

* - i blame Jan Kees, the New Amsterdammer and the original new york 'yankee' who started the whole thing. (i was always a brooklyn dodger fan myself) i also blame the romans for adding in the letter 'y' late in the game, we should have kept the roman 'claudian' letters as well
Claudian-letters.jpg

(recently proposed for addition into the computer 'unicode' letter set,wonder what the phonetic word for them will be)
 
Well, the Y has been around for a while. The original Semitic alphabet used a letter that looked a lot like it and that gave us U V W and Y.

Up north it's confusing to hear ourselves called yankees, when that's really just New Englanders. :)
 
as to 'Y'

See Linky and

Linky

the romans dropped the semitic 'y' at the beginning & added it back in near the end of the roman empire....

as to yankees, why should a jerseyite be confused, when y'all accept that the 'new york' giants are actually based in new jersey - now that's confusing. ( my grandma lived in secaucus for ages and so did my uncle, i remember the sweet smell of the pig farms there, tho they have probably gone now that they built that stadium thing near by )
 
Claudian-letters.jpg

(recently proposed for addition into the computer 'unicode' letter set,wonder what the phonetic word for them will be)
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Umm..."backwards charlie", "upsidedown foxtrot" and the ever popular "India with an erection"?
 
A New Yorker who lives in New Jersey isn't confused at all by the Giants keeping their NY name. :D

The Meadowlands lost the pig farms, but they are still a swamp, and in the summer they smell like one.

... just like the UN Secretariat site used to be a pig farm and still smells like one ...
 
Esav Benyamin said:
... just like the UN Secretariat site used to be a pig farm and still smells like one ...
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something we agree on! they could move out, make a profit by selling the real estate and moving to bayonne. or better, staten island, there's a lot of reclaimed land there they could set up a new sty on.

having attended university at Ft. Schuyler (more commonly known as fort shyster) in the Bronx, i spent many a fine weekend liberty in manhattan down around delancy street, food to die for. could never figure out why the UN was allowed to park wherever they felt like & couldn't be arrested for anything. the bus ride to tremont sq. and then the subway to so. manhattan was an educational experience in itself.
 
Nasty said:
Umm..."backwards charlie", "upsidedown foxtrot" and the ever popular "India with an erection"?
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Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters:
  • a reversed C (antisigma) to replace BS and PS, much like X stood in for CS and GS, and inspired by the Greek Psi.
  • a turned F (digamma inversum) to represent consonantal U, possibly inspired by the Greek Digamma.
  • a half H to represent the sound of Greek Upsilon, a vowel sound between U and I (y) in Latin words such as Olympicus).
These letters were used to a small extent on public inscriptions dating from his reign but their use was abandoned after his death. Their forms were probably chosen to ease the transition, as they could be made from templates for existing letters. Claudius may have been inspired to introduce these changes by a comment his mother Antonia made to him in his youth, to the effect of that he would be as unlikely to become emperor as he would be able to change the alphabet. In time, the letter Y was added to the Latin alphabet, filling the role of the broken "H" which Claudius had promulgated.
These letters—along with lowercase counterparts—have been proposed for addition to Unicode.
 
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