Exactly. The listening party doesn't need to have knowledge of the NATO alphabet to still benefit from it since they are just regular English words. I once had

Exactly. The listening party doesn't need to have knowledge of the NATO alphabet to still benefit from it since they are just regular English words. I once had someone sound out a serial number over a spotty phone connection years ago and they said "N as in NAIL". You know what sounds a lot like NAIL? MAIL. And that is why we don't just arbitrarily make up phonetic alphabets.