NATO Phonetic Alphabet Translator

In short The NATO phonetic alphabet — properly the ICAO spelling alphabet — replaces each letter with a word chosen so it cannot be confused with any other over a bad connection: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and so on to Zulu. It is what pilots, ships, emergency services and call centres use to spell a name or a reference out loud, and it is worth using any time you read a booking code or a postcode over the phone. Two spellings in it look like mistakes and are not. It is ALFA, not Alpha, because the letters ph are not read as an f sound in every language and the alphabet exists precisely to work between speakers who share none. And it is JULIETT with a double t, so that a French speaker does not silence the final one. Anyone who corrects those is correcting the standard. The digits carry prescribed pronunciations for the same reason: three is said TREE, four is FOW-er, five is FIFE, nine is NIN-er and zero is ZE-ro, because those are the ones a noisy link loses or confuses. The whole set was tested with speakers of several languages before it was adopted rather than simply chosen for sound, which is why no two words rhyme or share an opening syllable. This tool reads the common misspellings back correctly and never produces them.