Phonetic Alphabet

[gretch]

Does anyone know if Spain has a phonetic alphabet, not the sounds of the letters, but words that represent the letters, as in the English,
A = Alpha, B = Brovo, C = Charlie etc.
I always found it difficult when I had to spell my address over the phone in Britain, but with a strange foreign accent, it’s even worse

Regards
gretch

[mickhick]

Looks as though you'll have to make up your own Gretch!
How about - "A" for Andalucia ??

[Shukran]

A Antonio
B Barcelona
C Carmen
CH Chocolate
D Dolores
E Enrique
F Francia
G Gerona
H Historia
I Inés
J José
K Kilo
L Lorenzo
Ll Llobregat
M Madrid
N Navarra
Ñ Ñoño
O Oviedo
P París
Q Querido
R Ramón
S Sábado
T Tarragona
U Ulises
V Valencia
W Washington
X Xiquena
Y Yegua
Z Zaragoza

[Beachcomber]

There are a number of variations in every country's phonetic alphabet including Spain. Quite a comprehensive list can be found here:

http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/phon.full.html

The various Spanish police services all use the NATO version for their radio communications

[nevada smith]

shukran's list is correct -
here's a one-page, multiple alphabet print-out to keep by the phone:
http://morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html

[nevada smith]

then, should you need to pronounce the letters in spanish...
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Spanis ... habet.html

[gretch]

Excellent, thanks guys

gretch

[soegaard]

The names of the letters in the phonetic alphabet are chosen very carefully to make it international. The words chosen sounds the same (more or less) in most languages.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MAEL/ag/phonetic.htm

Jens-Kristian

[katy]

Nevada, thanks, really useful, I didn't know the English ones.

[Alan-LaCala]

I heard a work colleague once say to someone on the phone that it was "K for knife",

Think about it!

Alan