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Spike

In a Spike Milligan war memoir he mentions Ack, Beer as the phonetic system used by the Royal Artillery until the US entered the war. I know of another rather obscure one:
A for 'orses
B for mutton
C for sailors
D for dumb
Does anyone know the rest?


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