• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Nine is evil because it’s a valid character. When you are using a phonetic alphabet, you don’t say “N as in Nine”. The whole point is to speed up communication over crappy connections. Adding “as in” afterwards defeats the purpose of having a standard.

    As for L, I would go with “Letter”.