Before there was Alpha

~ Bob

there was Able. And Able was begat by:

ack

and vars., used for a in the oral transliteration of code messages and in telephone communications, as in ack emma, for a.m. = ante meridiem; air mechanic. See ACK-ACK, EMMA. In military use replaced by able in Dec. 1942.

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