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.
There’s gotta be better than Nine and Lima!
Neigh? Nor?
Lloyd? Lear?
“Nevermind” or “Next” would be pretty good.
L could maybe be “Lagos” because there’s two cities named that and they’re pronounced differently?
B : backslash
D : delete
G : gneiss
H : hour
L : llama
N : nave
P : pterosaur
R : rote
U : urn
V : veldt
X : xerographic
Z : zero
Llama
No idea for Nine, though.
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”.