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Lima Yankee November Alpha

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I have an incredibly long, consonant-laden Polish name which, by default, confuses people. My mailman will deliver pretty much anything at all to me as long as it looks like it was addressed to an alphabet. Confirming myself as the account holder when calling utility companies is rather entertaining. Survival skills dictated that I learn how to rattle off my name with precision military spelling, to ensure the 16 different letters of my THIRTY-ONE letter-long name is correctly decoded by another human ear.

For those of you wishing to acquire this very fun and much underused linguistic capability, why not exercise your palate right now by spelling your name aloud using the following international radiotelephony spelling alphabet as fast as you possibly can, while still being entirely understandable.



Try timing yourself!