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NCIS_fan_22
NCIS_fan_22
your name
Apr 19 2008, 12:03 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 12:03 AM EDT
mine is:

Tango Echo Romeo Echo Sirra Alpha
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SilverStar48
SilverStar48
1. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 10:57 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 10:57 AM EDT
"mine is:

Tango Echo Romeo Echo Sirra Alpha"
Ok, I need help with this. Can you fill in the missing ones for me? Thanks!

Sierra H? Alpha Romeo Romeo O? N?
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speedymans156
speedymans156
2. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 2:36 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 2:36 PM EDT
yours is:
Sierra Hotel Alpha Romeo Romeo Oscar November!!!!!
mine
Lima Echo Sierra Lima Echo Yankee :D
This is fun... ;P
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Sorgiña
Sorgiña
3. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 4:22 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 4:22 PM EDT
Right here goes: Jack Uncle Alpha November India Tango Alpha Do you find this valuable?    
May96
May96
4. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 8:14 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 8:14 PM EDT
"Right here goes: Jack Uncle Alpha November India Tango Alpha"
Are they different in different countries?
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Sorgiña
Sorgiña
5. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 8:38 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 8:38 PM EDT
I used the English alphabet but in Spanish it would have been:

Japón Uruguay Albacete Noviembre India Teruel Albacete
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May96
May96
6. RE: your name
Apr 19 2008, 8:45 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 19 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
"I used the English alphabet but in Spanish it would have been:

Japón Uruguay Albacete Noviembre India Teruel Albacete"
o right just curious, because 'U' can be 'UNCLE' and 'UNIFORM', must get really confusing when working internationally...
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Sorgiña
Sorgiña
7. RE: your name
Apr 20 2008, 8:45 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 20 2008, 8:45 AM EDT
you've got no idea! Particularly as in Spain people don't spell names out to you unless it's to distinguish between 'b' and 'v', which are virtually identical in sound, or 'll' and 'y', which also cause problems. Then of course there are the 'sui generis' spellings. Since I live in the Basque Country I'd probably spell name as: Jaen (the J in Basque is often a Y sound), Urduliz, Arrigorriaga, Naroa, Izaro, Tolosa, Arrigorriaga
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MissLena
MissLena
8. RE: your name
Jun 8 2008, 4:29 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 8 2008, 4:29 PM EDT
Mine would be either;; Hotel-Echo-Lima-Echo-November

or

Lima-Echo-November-Alpha

Depending on whether you're doing my full name or the short form ^_^
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Cathain
Cathain
9. RE: your name
Jun 8 2008, 4:56 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 8 2008, 4:56 PM EDT
That is funny, but I loose.

Mine would be:
Charlie-Alfa-Tango-Hotel-Echo-Romeo-India-November-Echo

Or short:
Kilo -Alfa-Tango-Hotel-Echo
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edwags
edwags
10. RE: your name
Jun 8 2008, 7:05 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 8 2008, 7:05 PM EDT
"mine is:

Tango Echo Romeo Echo Sirra Alpha"
Echo Delta OR

Echo Delta Whiskey Alpha Romeo Delta for long
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zivadavid
zivadavid
11. RE: your name
Jun 11 2008, 1:09 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 11 2008, 1:09 PM EDT
"Right here goes: Jack Uncle Alpha November India Tango Alpha"
no yours would be juilliet uniform alpha november india tango alpha.i should know as i am english
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zivadavid
zivadavid
12. RE: your name
Jun 11 2008, 1:11 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 11 2008, 1:11 PM EDT
"Echo Delta OR

Echo Delta Whiskey Alpha Romeo Delta for long"
mine is bravo echo tango hotel alpha november yankee
or short
bravo echo tango hotel
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NCISlover161
NCISlover161
13. RE: your name
Jun 11 2008, 2:45 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 11 2008, 2:45 PM EDT
mine is : Hotel Alpha Romeo Romeo India Echo Tango...wow thats cool! :D Do you find this valuable?    
Cathain
Cathain
14. RE: your name
Jun 11 2008, 2:46 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 11 2008, 2:46 PM EDT
"Kilo -Alfa-Tango-Echo
"
Of course, it would be without a H!
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MargyW
MargyW
15. RE: your name
Jun 11 2008, 5:04 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 11 2008, 5:04 PM EDT
"o right just curious, because 'U' can be 'UNCLE' and 'UNIFORM', must get really confusing when working internationally..."
Depends on whether you are using the American or the English. The American is generally used after the early part of WWII, but sometimes the English ones are used. In the English systems Alpha was Able, Beta was Baker. The English system used Uncle rather than Uniform.
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zivadavid
zivadavid
16. RE: your name
Jun 12 2008, 10:24 AM EDT | Post edited: Jun 12 2008, 10:24 AM EDT
"Depends on whether you are using the American or the English. The American is generally used after the early part of WWII, but sometimes the English ones are used. In the English systems Alpha was Able, Beta was Baker. The English system used Uncle rather than Uniform."
wrong wrong wrong we use uniform as i am english
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Sorgiña
Sorgiña
17. RE: your name
Jun 12 2008, 10:33 AM EDT | Post edited: Jun 12 2008, 10:33 AM EDT
"wrong wrong wrong we use uniform as i am english"
Well actually at least until recently we used 'Uncle' in the UK - I'm British and grew up next door to Aldershot and Sandhurst Military Academy. One of my aunts was a bomber navigator in WWII in the WAAF, her hubby a RAF pilot, mum was in the WRNS, my cousin in the Royal Scots Guards, one of dad's friends was a Major in the SAS - and they all used 'Uncle' - that's how we got taught it at school (school governor was a Colonel).
However, in recent years due to the influx of US TV series with military/naval storylines and globalisation in general 'Uniform' is now admitted in the UK forces too.
But as a temporary telephonist (admittedly 30 years ago) again we were expected to use Uncle.

But as you're probably considerably younger than myself it's probably why you're not used to the original spelling usages.

Nothing ever remains totally unchanged, and like it or lump US English has greatly influenced UK English in recent years due to TV series and films, to such an extent spoken English is often a corruption of UK+US English, which is part of language evolution. In the same way that Spanish from Spain has become influence in the last 10 years by the influx of soap operas from Latin America, and the blossoming film industry of Argentina and Mexico among others, not to mention the large numbers of immigrants from these nations in Spain, thus the language is not what it was in 1979 when I arrived

Ciao
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zivadavid
zivadavid
18. RE: your name
Jun 12 2008, 12:13 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 12 2008, 12:13 PM EDT
"Well actually at least until recently we used 'Uncle' in the UK - I'm British and grew up next door to Aldershot and Sandhurst Military Academy. One of my aunts was a bomber navigator in WWII in the WAAF, her hubby a RAF pilot, mum was in the WRNS, my cousin in the Royal Scots Guards, one of dad's friends was a Major in the SAS - and they all used 'Uncle' - that's how we got taught it at school (school governor was a Colonel).
However, in recent years due to the influx of US TV series with military/naval storylines and globalisation in general 'Uniform' is now admitted in the UK forces too.
But as a temporary telephonist (admittedly 30 years ago) again we were expected to use Uncle.

But as you're probably considerably younger than myself it's probably why you're not used to the original spelling usages.

Nothing ever remains totally unchanged, and like it or lump US English has greatly influenced UK English in recent years due to TV series and films, to such an extent spoken English is often a corruption of UK+US English, which is part of language evolution. In the same way that Spanish from Spain has become influence in the last 10 years by the influx of soap operas from Latin America, and the blossoming film industry of Argentina and Mexico among others, not to mention the large numbers of immigrants from these nations in Spain, thus the language is not what it was in 1979 when I arrived

Ciao"
soz
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MargyW
MargyW
19. RE: your name
Jun 12 2008, 5:45 PM EDT | Post edited: Jun 12 2008, 5:45 PM EDT
"wrong wrong wrong we use uniform as i am english"
I said 'used'. The English system changed to the American one during WWII... when there were so many US troops based in the UK. Prior to then, there were two different systems.
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