Phonetic Alphabets of the World

During a lull in the lab we ended up looking up checking what the x and z were in the Italian phonetic alphabet (Xilofono and Zara for those who are interested). Anyway, we found this site which is kind of cool as it lists many different phonetic alphabets, not just different countries but from different armed services and such.

A lot of the lists try to use words from the same group. Italian, for example mainly uses place names, whereas France uses people's names (and are saved by the likes of Xavier and Zoe). Esperanto, meanwhile, gets around the whole problem by not having the letter z.

Anyway, when I'm not looking at phonetic alphabets whilst waiting for my code to execute, I'm preparing for my imminent departure. On Friday morning I fly to Hong Kong, then on Monday on from Hong Kong to Melbourne. From Melbourne there will be excursions to Kangaroo Island, and New Zealand. I'm coming back via Hong Kong and I may pop over to mainland China as I've got about five days there. I'm very excited to meet my niece and to see Kate and Obi

I'll endeavor to keep my blog posted with my travels as usual.

Cheers,


Ali

PS For some ridiculous reason the www.blogger.com spell cheker doesn't have 'blog'!