This week a new, more inclusive game alphabet was presented in the Netherlands. I myself have been using the NATO spelling alphabet since my military service in the early 1980s. That often helped, but not always when I had to say my initials over the phone: Kilo, Juliet, Golf. It sounded in despair over the phone a few years ago: how do I spell Juliet?
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of November 3, 2021
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