Editing NATO phonetic alphabet (section)

==International adoption==
Soon after the code words were developed by ICAO (see [[#History|history]] below), they were adopted by other national and international organizations, including the ITU, the [[International Maritime Organization]] (IMO), the United States Federal Government as Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunications Terms<ref name="1037C">{{Cite web |url=https://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-027/_3983.htm |title=Definition: phonetic alphabet |work=Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms |date=23 August 1996 |publisher=National Communications System |access-date=11 November 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029044959if_/https://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-027/_3983.htm |archive-date=29 October 2020}}</ref> and its successors ANSI T1.523-2001<ref name="T1.523-2001">{{cite web |url=https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/atis/t15232001|title=T1.523-2001 - Telecom Glossary 2000|date=2001 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=American National Standards Institute |access-date=11 November 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111220733if_/https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/atis/t15232001 |archive-date=11 November 2020}}</ref> and [[Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions|ATIS]] Telecom Glossary (ATIS-0100523.2019)<ref name="ATIS">{{cite web|url=https://glossary.atis.org/glossary/phonetic-alphabet/|title=ATIS Telecom Glossary (ATIS-0100523.2019)|date=2019|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions|access-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111212640if_/https://glossary.atis.org/glossary/phonetic-alphabet/|archive-date=11 November 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> (all three using the spellings "Alpha" and "Juliet"), the United States Department of Defense,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://marineparents.com/downloads/dod-terms.pdf|title=Joint Publication 1-02: Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms|page=414, PDF page 421|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003155737/http://marineparents.com/downloads/dod-terms.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA) (using the spelling "Xray"), the [[International Amateur Radio Union]] (IARU), the [[American Radio Relay League]] (ARRL), the [[Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International]] (APCO), and by many military organizations such as NATO (using the spelling "Xray") and the now-defunct [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] (SEATO).{{cn|date=November 2024}}

The same alphabetic code words are used by all agencies, but each agency chooses one of two different sets of numeric code words. NATO uses the regular English numerals (''zero'', ''one'', ''two'', etc., though with some differences in pronunciation), whereas the ITU (beginning on 1 April 1969){{sfn |ITU|1967|pp=177–179}} and the IMO created compound code words (''nadazero'', ''unaone'', ''bissotwo'' etc.). In practice the compound words are used very rarely.{{cn|date=November 2024}}