Some interesting facts:

• Alfa is spelled with an f because native speakers of most European languages may pronounce ph as p, ignoring the h.
• Juliett is neither proper English (Juliet) nor French (Juliette). The tt prevents French speakers from treating a single t as silent. The final e must be omitted because native Spanish speakers would pronounce it as a final syllable teh.
• The pronunciation of the number nine was changed to niner to avoid confusion with the German word for no, "nein". "Nine" could also sound like "one" or "five" over a radio.

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