Standard Radio/Telephone Communication Phonetic Alphabet Code. The original form of this code was developed by the military to avoid confusion over letters that can sound similar over the airwaves.  Possible Variations: Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy and Fox, for example were the American military standards for A, B, C, D, E and F in WW II and Korea. Charlie is the only letter designation in that group to survive. Other names like Frank, George and Sam are commonly used in telephone communication by people who do not know the standard code. For deceptive purposes a mix of standard, common variation and custom variation is ideal (codes and decoders)

A = Alpha

B = Bravo

G = Golf

Z = Zulu

Note: The Standard Code and most variations are used to make communication easier for the greatest number of people. If the intent is to communicate with a few and to deceive everyone else, a custom code within the standard code is essential.

DIamond, LOraine, and TUxedo can do double duty as common, "obsolete," local telephone exchanges for specific geographical areas The first two letters correspond to numbers on a telephone (MUrray Hill was a common exchange. However, two-word exchanges caused many people to misdial because they used the first letter in each word instead of the first two letters in the first word).

These are only examples of how the standard code can be varied to transmit secret information to a closed group while making the base code invisible or harder to decipher for people outside of that group. The variations listed do not cover every possibility --Jasper