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Post #336337

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Gaffer Tape
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Bored at work yesterday... the Original Trilogy phonetic alphabet
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13-Nov-2008, 1:55 PM

Oh, yeah, Quarren.  They got poisoned in the X-Wing series.  And, yeah, Needa is obvious as well.

And thanks for the clarification.  I get what he was going for now.  I was thinking of systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet, used for transcribing sounds in human speech in order to help with things like learning dialects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

EDIT:  And, funnily enough, if you go to that page, it says at the top "not to be confused with the NATO Phonetic Alphabet" with a link to the page you listed, humdingers.

EDIT AGAIN:  Oh, and the NATO page says, "Though often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets have no connection to phonetic transcription systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet."  So, technically, "spelling alphabet" is a more accurate term.  Sorry, I just had to point that out, not to be a dick, but to keep myself from feeling stupid that I was the only person in this thread not to pick up on what the original post was referring to.  ^_^