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Old 4th June 2002 | 20:53
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PAXboy
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Another phoenetic alphabet that I doubt any of you have heard of ...

In the world of international telephone operators, before international direct dialling became a commonplace, all calls between countries were connected manually.

Some of you may remember having to book a call for busy holiday periods and then hearing the international operators call the distance country and then the subscriber (as they were).

To facilitiate the exchange of information, an international phoenetic alphabet was divised. I have no idea when or by whom, not can I remember all of it but some were ...

L - London
P - Paris
R - Rome
S - Sydney

It only fell out of use in the 1990s.
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