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2016
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Spelling session - från A till Z - och Ö

2016-10-13 13:23
Spelling session - från A till Z - och Ö
Ordet "prick" kan ställa till problem, bland annat när man ska bokstavera det svenska efternamnet Östling... O with two... Ja, vad säger man. Vi reder ut begreppen och här lär du dig samtidigt att bokstavera enligt ICAO:s internationella standard.
Chapter 4 Spelling session - från A till Z - och Ö
“Spell it? OK, it’s K for Kalle, O with two pricks over for Ö… umm?!”.

K – I ran into trouble the other day – I had to spell the Swedish last name Östling to an English speaking person. Most embarrassing…
M – Oh, how come?
K – Well I am familiar with the Swedish telephone directory spelling standard, with A for Adam, B for Bertil, C for Cesar, D for David and so on – all male names. But one of the more well-known – and laughed at - problems we Swedes have is when we need to spell a word with our unique letters Å, Ä and Ö. The Swedish word for dot is prick… and when we say O with two pricks over – for Ö –English speaking people tend to immediately start giggling.  
M – Hohoho, yes of course. Well, how did you solve it?
K – I started out saying “O with two… “ and then managed to stop myself and think before continuing with “O with two dots over”. Then I went on with S for Sigurd, T for Tore, L for Ludvig, I for Ivar, N for Niklas and finally G for Gustav.  The only answer I got was “Eh, what? What do you mean by Sigurd…?”
M – Oh dear, haha, yes, your listener would have been a bit lost I think. In fact, I meet a lot of people in Sweden who have experienced the same problem – they are not used to international spelling standards. I can teach you the ICAO alphabet if you like!?
K – Yes, please! What is it?!
M – The ICAO or International Civil Aviation Organization alphabet is the most common standard alphabet used internationally, within air and sea traffic and is also used by NATO. Sometimes in movies you can hear people use it, like “Echo Bravo Delta 365 to Tango Lima Foxtrot 524”. They use the ICAO standard. It goes like this: 
Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee and finally Zulu. 
K – Wow, seems impossible to learn though. I would probably mix them all up with the Swedish names…
M – Ah, but I have a trick for you. It is all about dividing them into themed groups. These consist of Greek Letters, Dances, Leisure, Shakespeare, Names, Geographical and Miscellaneous 
For example, here are some from the names group: - Charlie, Mike and Victor. 
Here are some examples: from the geographical group, we have: India, Lima, Quebec. 
The Shakespeare group: Juliett – and where there is a Juliett there has to be a Romeo.
Examples from the entertainment group would be: Hotel, Whisky.
K – Impressive! But we still haven’t said anything about how to spell our Swedish Å, Ä and Ö with an international standard.
M - Actually, you use a combination of double letters.  It is better to use a double A – Alfa Alfa – for Å. 
Ä is Alfa Echo and Ö is Oscar Echo. When you describe how to write them; you could say A with a circle above for Å, A with two dots above for Ä and O with two dots above for Ö. 

Useful hints from Mike:
Write the letters of the alphabet in a conventional manner, i.e. in the order in which they appear. Make a separate list for each group as per the blog, e.g. a Shakespeare Group, listing Juliett and Romeo in this group and do the same for the others. Learn them in these groups and test yourself by looking at the written alphabet and writing each letter, with its ICAO name, in the correct group. Then, practice the ICAO with your friends, using the name of the letter rather than the letter itself, e.g. JULIETT – OSCAR – HOTEL – NOVEMBER (JOHN). Finally and most important of all... USE IT!

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