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June 28

British English and American English philatelic terms

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I am looking for philatelic words which mean the same but have different wording in British English en American English, like color and colour, or cover and envelope or unmounted mint and mint never hinged ……….. Do you know more examples? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Peter, Netherlands — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1811:DC38:DB00:802F:880B:FEE:22FE (talk) 08:49, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have come across one significant one - what the Americans call Topical collecting is called Thematic collecting in the UK. Wymspen (talk) 13:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

aerogram, aerogramme; cancelation cancellation; canceled-to-order, cancelled-to-order. —Stephen (talk) 08:18, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nato phonetic alphabet symbols

When using the NATO phonetic alphabet, how is one meant to pronounce symbols. EG for "jim.rockford@email.com" how are the "@" and the "." pronounced? I would use "AT" and "DOT"or"STOP" (they sound similar anyway).

Also how about "#", "/", ",", "$", "&", "!" and "?" (I would use HASH, SLASH, COMMA, DOLLAR, AND, SHRIEK & QUERY, but HASH/SLASH are poorly distinguished as are "COMMAR/DOLLAR".)

Is there an official list or method (eg "SYMBOL HOTEL ALFA SIERRA HOTEL" for hash) Or what? -- SGBailey (talk) 14:25, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The table in the section "Pronunciation of code words" in our articles gives pronunciations for decimal point, hyphen, and full stop. DuncanHill (talk) 14:40, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]