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Many times I need to give people exact spellings of text, such as complex passwords, over the phone.  I don’t have the NATO phonetic alphabet memorized, so I thought it’d be great if I have a utility to help me.

For example, if the text I wanted to spell out was “My$up3RP@ssword,” I would read this as “capital mike, yankee, dollar sign,  uniform, papa, three, capital romeo, capital pap, at sign, sierra, sierra, whiskey, oscar, romeo, delta.”

Doing that all in your head (at least for me) is exhausting!   A program would be much more effective!

I ended up writing a program that does just this with minimal effort.  You can install it through a ClickOnce deployment here: http://www.visionarytech.net/software/phonetic/