Not being a native English speaker, sometimes it is hard to tell people your name specially over the phone. I ran into this problem few times now and it becomes a mess trying to connect every letter with a known English word.
I watched many episodes of National Geographic’s program about plane accidents. I heard how the pilots consistently use specific words to describe the letters of the flight.
I decided to find out what they use and it came to be the “NATO Phonetic Alphabet”. It is a phonetic alphabet where every letter is represented using a word.
So I decided to memorize my NATO Phonetic Name. Here it is:
Mostafa
- Mike
- Oscar
- Sierra
- Tango
- Alpha
- Foxtrot
- Alpha
Naguib
- November
- Alpha
- Golf
- Uniform
- India
- Bravo
This is more handy. You can find the whole alphabet here.