“I don’t think Charlie is such a bad choice of name, even for a girl,” I told her.

“You should talk to my sisters, Alfa, Bravo and Delta,” she replied.

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      Isn’t it designed to be words that are difficult to mistake for other words. I thought it was more about using unreliable frequencies with potential white noise than being rapid

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      Alfa is so spelt so that non-English speakers would pronounce it correctly. The letters ‘ph’ could be problematic.