Originally Posted by
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Could I suggest that the phonetic spelling is just an attempt to indicate the correct English pronunciation, mainly for the benefit of non-native English speakers? After all, if you have English as a first language, you do not need ICAO or CAP413 to tell you to pronounce two as too!
2 s
Read the 4 page article on ICAO English in the last issue of Aerospace International.
It shows just how incorrect your views are I'm afraid.
I'm a native speaker living in England, there are native speakers in Texas, in Jamaica, in Glasgow, in the Rhondda, in Australia....
Add in that fife and niner are there to stop confusion with other words, and for good reason.
... we really do need standardised pronounciation. More to the point, we need to use it.
G