Getting stuck on the Phonetic Alphabet

A for 'orses (hay for horses)
B for mutton (beef or mutton)
C for 'th highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders)
D for 'ential (deferential)
E for Adam (Eve or Adam)
F for 'vescence (effervescence)
G for police (Chief of police)
H for respect (age for respect)
I for Novello (Ivor Novello)
J for oranges (Jaffa oranges)
K for 'ancis, (Kay Francis), or K for undressing
L for leather (Hell for leather)
M for 'sis (emphasis)
N for 'adig (in for a dig, or infradig)
O for the garden wall (over the garden wall)
P for a penny (pee for a penny)
Q for a song (cue for a song), or Q for billiards (cue for billiards)
R for mo' (half a mo')
S for you (it's for you)
T for two (tea for two)
U for films (UFA films)
V for La France (Vive La France)
W for a bob (double you for a bob)
X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
Y for Gawd's sake (why, for God's sake)
Z for breezes (zephyr breezes: see West wind)

Reported in Wiki and described as the Cockney phonetic alphabet
 
john_morris_uk said:
A for 'orses (hay for horses)
B for mutton (beef or mutton)
C for 'th highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders)
D for 'ential (deferential)
E for Adam (Eve or Adam)
F for 'vescence (effervescence)
G for police (Chief of police)
H for respect (age for respect)
I for Novello (Ivor Novello)
J for oranges (Jaffa oranges)
K for 'ancis, (Kay Francis), or K for undressing
L for leather (Hell for leather)
M for 'sis (emphasis)
N for 'adig (in for a dig, or infradig)
O for the garden wall (over the garden wall)
P for a penny (pee for a penny)
Q for a song (cue for a song), or Q for billiards (cue for billiards)
R for mo' (half a mo')
S for you (it's for you)
T for two (tea for two)
U for films (UFA films)
V for La France (Vive La France)
W for a bob (double you for a bob)
X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
Y for Gawd's sake (why, for God's sake)
Z for breezes (zephyr breezes: see West wind)

Reported in Wiki and described as the Cockney phonetic alphabet
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A jolly wag of an instructor recited something similar minutes before our first comms test in the RAF, having spent the night before cramming the correct phonetic alphabet it really screwed us up! But I think he used R for Askey
 
Buck Turgidson said:
A jolly wag of an instructor recited something similar minutes before our first comms test in the RAF, having spent the night before cramming the correct phonetic alphabet it really screwed us up! But I think he used R for Askey
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I have heard several versions, but can never remember them. The one I quoted was the first one Mr Google found for me.
 
My first business partner-newly retired Met Police Sergant-suggested that if I was stopped by the police and asked the registration No. of the car to give it in phonetic.

Some time later this happened and I did as he suggested.

The Traffic Officer said " You job mate? "

I said I was not, but that my business partner was ex job.

Result-the guy knew him and had played Rugby with him.

I got off with a severe B*llocking...................................
 
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