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Re:Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number sta... by Todd on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:57PM (#24346970)
This may have been to disambiguate between similar sounding phonemes. English phonetic alphabets used for radio had pronunciations like 'tree' for 3 and 'niner' for 9.
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