Do you know the phonetic alphabet?

Posted by konnekting@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 982 comments

I don’t know it as I’ve never seen the value in learning it, but whenever I talk to someone (usually on a phone call) and they use it, it seems like I’m an odd one out for not knowing it. Is it really common knowledge or is it predominantly just call centre operators (or other people that answer a lot of phone calls) that know it?