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sometimes also 'niner' instead of 'nine' for similar reasons.
by hhmc 3y ago
sometimes also 'niner' instead of 'nine' for similar reasons.
- CPLX 3y agoIn standard aviation phraseology it's "fife" for the number five and "niner" for the number nine, to avoid confusing between them.
- AceyMan 3y agoICAO standard prescribes "fower" as four (making it two syllables), as well as all the others that have been cited (tree/three, fife/five, niner/nine).
- leetrout 3y agoThey used to say fiver instead, as well
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- aidos 3y agoIs that meant to sound less like “fire”??
- bqmjjx0kac 3y agoThat sounds even more like "fire"!
- CPLX 3y agoI bet they didn't.
- leetrout 3y agoI am not claiming it was standard, only that it was used. You can hear it in old WWII footage.
- thrill 3y agoNo, fiver is occasionally used by beginning aviation students though in confusion (DAMHIK).
- Tomte 3y agoAnd „tree“ instead of „three“.
- alistairSH 3y agoYou sure that wasn't just an Irishman doing the countdown?
- Tomte 3y ago„The ICAO, NATO, and FAA use modifications of English digits as code words, with 3, 4, 5 and 9 being pronounced tree, fower (rhymes with lower), fife and niner. The digit 3 is specified as tree so that it is not pronounced sri; the long pronunciation of 4 (still found in some English dialects) keeps it somewhat distinct from for; 5 is pronounced with a second "f" because the normal pronunciation with a "v" is easily confused with "fire" (a command to shoot); and 9 has an extra syllable to keep it distinct from the German word nein "no". (Prior to 1956, three and five had been pronounced with the English consonants, but as two syllables.?“ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet#Pronunciation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet#Pronu...
- astrodust 3y agoJamaican?