The name of which sport is used for a letter in the phonetic alphabet?
"by those who exchange voice messages by radio or telephone, regardless of language differences or the quality of the communication channel. The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: , Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, , Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. Strict adherence to the prescribed spelling words is required in order to avoid the problems of confusion that the spelling alphabet is designed to overcome. As noted in a"
"The word ‘Athletica’ denotes strength and power – characteristics of this organization that are epitomized by the crest, which also pays homage to St. Louis’ roots,” said Cooper. “Naming a professional sports franchise is no easy task, to say the least. With Athletica, we feel we have perfectly captured the essence of our team’s identity in a name and crest that transcends cultures. Originally, the crest used to represent the St. Louis Athletica was simply the same crest used by Cooper's organization St. Louis Soccer United, which is also presumed to be the crest that will be used if SLSU"
"including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. , fitba or fitbaw, is a rendering of the Scots pronunciation of ""football"", often used in a humorous or ironic context. In the United States, where American football is the dominant code, the word ""football"" is used to refer only to that sport. Association football is most commonly referred to as ""soccer."" As early as 1911 there were several names in use for the sport in the Americas. A 29 December 1911 ""New York Times"" article reporting on the addition of the game as an official collegiate sport in"
"Line). In francophone Quebec, where Canadian football is more popular, the Canadian code is known as while American football is known as and association football is known as . Of the 45 national FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, most currently use ""Football"" in their organisations' official names; the FIFA affiliates in Canada and the United States use ""Soccer"" in their names. A few FIFA affiliates have recently ""normalised"" to using ""Football"", including: Several of the football codes are the most popular team sports in the world. Globally, association football"
"prefix in their names; in Major League Soccer; these include FC Dallas, Seattle Sounders FC, Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Los Angeles FC and New York City FC. In Central America, the only English-speaking nation is Belize, and like the other six Central American nations, the unqualified term ""football"" refers to association football, as used in the Football Federation of Belize and in the Belize Premier Football League. The term ""soccer"" is sometimes used in vernacular speech and media coverage, however. In the Caribbean, most of the English-speaking members use the word ""football"" for their federations and leagues, the exception"
"other scenarios where a spelling alphabet is useful. A spelling alphabet is also often called a phonetic alphabet, especially by amateur radio enthusiasts, recreational sailors in the US and Australia, and NATO military organizations. However, this conflicts with the usage of the same phrase in phonetics to mean a notation used for phonetic transcription or phonetic spelling, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is used to indicate the sounds of human speech. Prior to spelling alphabets, the words used to indicate English letters were ""a"", ""bee"", ""cee"", ""dee"", ""e"", etc. Their spoken sounds are difficult to discriminate, particularly over"
"adding ""al"" from alpha, ""om"" from omega (the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet) and ""a"" from ""always"" that was interpreted to mean ""Mermaids, first, last and always""; reflected in the club motto ""Once a Meraloma, Always a Meraoma"". Thus, the Mermaid Athletic Club became the Meraloma Club. The Rugby Section of the Meraloma Club has had tremendous success, both on a team, & individual level, with numerous premiership titles for the club. Players for the Meraloma's also compete at both the Provincial & National Levels. The Meraloma's most recent Rounsefell Cup win came in 2009. The team"
"Stockings. This practice of using the singular form of the ""nickname"" as the team name faded with time, although as recently as the early 1900s, the team generally known as ""Philadelphia Athletics"" was shown in the American League standings as ""Athletic"", the traditional way. That team sported an old-English ""A"" on its jerseys, as had its nominative predecessors. Later, the ""Encyclopedia of Baseball"" attempted to retrofit the names into a modern context. In the following list, the bold names are the names most often used by contemporary newspapers in league standings, and the linked names after them are those typically"
"de Football Association) affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, 43 use ""football"" in their organisations' official names (Canada and the United States use ""soccer""). ""Soccer"" is the prevailing term for association football in the United States and Canada, where other codes of ""football"" are dominant. In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from ""soccer"" to ""football"" to align with the general international usage of the term. In 2006, New Zealand decided to follow suit. There are also many other languages where the common term for association football is phonetically similar to the English"
"football (either Canadian football or American football; ""le football canadien"" or ""le football américain"" in Standard French). ""Soccer"" is the name for association football in Canadian English (similarly, in Canadian French, ""le soccer""). Likewise, in majority francophone Quebec, the provincial governing body is the ""Fédération de Soccer du Québec"". This is unusual compared to other francophone countries, where ""football"" is generally used. For example, in FIFA, an acronym for the world governing body of the sport, the ""FA"" stands for ""football association"" (French for ""association football""). Some teams based in the two countries have adopted ""FC"" as a suffix or"
"the more common name, used by all cultural groups when speaking English. The domestic first division is the Premier Soccer League and both in conversation and the media (see e.g. ""The Sowetan"" or ""Independent Online""), the term ""soccer"" is used almost exclusively. The largest stadium used at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa, was known as Soccer City. Despite this, the country's national association is called the South African Football Association and ""football"" might occasionally be used in official contexts. In Afrikaans, one of the other major languages in South Africa, the word ""sokker"" is used far"
"the world's sport for fans in the entire Bay Area."" during a Reddit ""Ask Me Anything"" (AMA) session in February 2017. When coming up with name and crest, the operations team listened to a lot of fan input before making a decision. The name came about through eight major points: 1) No animals, there are too many animal team names; 2) Don't copy European Club Soccer in terms of naming, be original; 3) Europe is known for crests and nobility, but the USA is not; 4) With 40% of the people living in San Francisco not being born in the"
"alphabet, both the everyday letter and its phonetic alphabet equivalent are spoken, such as “B as in boy”, “V as in Victor”, etc. On early seasons of ""Wheel of Fortune"", a close variant of the LAPD phonetic alphabet was used. APCO radiotelephony spelling alphabet The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of"
"in ""soccer""-speaking Australia and New Zealand have actively promoted the use of ""football"" to mirror international usage and, at least in the Australian case, to rebrand a sport that had been experiencing difficulties. Both bodies dropped ""soccer"" from their names. These efforts have met with considerable success in New Zealand. Usage of the various names of association football vary among the countries or territories who hold the English language as an official or ""de facto"" official language. The brief survey of usage below addresses places which have some level of autonomy in the sport and their own separate federation but"
"Phonetic Alphabet uses to represent the voiceless labiodental fricative. An italic letter is conventionally used to denote an arbitrary function. See also f with hook (ƒ). F F (named ""ef"" ) is the sixth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The origin of 'F' is the Semitic letter ""vâv"" (or ""waw"") that represented a sound like or . Graphically it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): T3 The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into"
"necessary, which may be after every match for a professional. Despite the name, ""catgut"" has never been made from any part of a cat. ""Racket"" is the standard spelling of the word. ""Racquet"" is an alternative spelling used more commonly in certain sports (squash, racquetball, badminton, tennis) and less commonly in others. While some writers, especially those outside North America, prefer the French-influenced ""racquet"", ""racket"" is the predominant spelling by a large margin. Similarly, while some believe that ""racket"" came about as a misspelling of ""racquet"", ""racket"" is in fact the older spelling: it has been in use since the"
"sports franchise in the world. The name ""Ravens"" was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem ""The Raven"". Chosen in a fan contest that drew 33,288 voters, the allusion honors Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore and is buried there. As the ""Baltimore Sun"" reported at the time, fans also ""liked the tie-in with the other birds in town, the Orioles, and found it easy to visualize a tough, menacing black bird."" After the controversial relocation of the Colts to Indianapolis, several attempts were made to bring an NFL team back to Baltimore. In 1993, ahead"
"in use in Britain throughout the early 20th century and became especially prominent in the decades after World War II, but by the 1980s British fans had begun avoiding the term, largely because it was seen as an Americanism. Both rugby union and rugby league are generally known as rugby. Union is the more commonly played variant in the United States. Rugby league and Gaelic football have very small, albeit growing, numbers of adherents. Many languages use phonetic approximations of the English word ""football"" for association football. Examples include: This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua,"
"Football (word) The English word football may mean any one of several team sports (or the ball used in that respective sport), depending on the national or regional origin and location of the person using the word. So where English is a first language the unqualified use of the word ""football"" is used to refer to the most popular code of football in that region. The sports most frequently referred to as simply ""football"" are Association football, American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league football and rugby union football. Of the 45 ""national"" FIFA (Fédération Internationale"
"brave man. Recently however, most foreign players are just simply given a direct Chinese transcription. Some players (mostly foreign players) have now adopted the custom in the rest of the world by placing their surnames on the back of their jerseys using the Latin alphabet. Some teams now have adopted Latin alphabet jerseys, a trend that has picked up in recent years. The Fubon Guardians only have uniforms with such, and the other teams are adopting such jerseys on occasion. Brother Elephants did not reach an agreement with Taichung City Government, but nonetheless play their home games in the regional"
"kind. The practice by the U.S. major leagues of using the ""World Champion"" moniker originates from the World Series of professional baseball, and it was later used during the first three Super Bowls when they were referred to as AFL-NFL World Championship Games. The phrase is still engraved on the Super Bowl rings. Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game is the culmination of a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. Normally, Roman numerals are used to identify each game, rather than"
"folding due to financial problems. The entire Athletica roster was entered into free agency on June 1, 2010. While it was initially announced that the team name would be just ""St. Louis"" – with no moniker – the official name of the team was changed to ""Saint Louis Athletica"" two months later, still well before the inaugural season began. According to the official release on SLSU's website, The word “Athletica,” while not found in the English dictionary, is derived from the adjective “athletic,” with the “a” denoting the newly created noun as feminine, a common practice in many foreign languages..."
"create a map of Europe in the centre of their logo. The Asian Football Confederation, Oceania Football Confederation and CONCACAF (the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean) use blue text on their logos. In Major League Baseball, the premier baseball league in the United States and Canada, blue is one of the three colours, along with white and red, on the league's official logo. A team from Toronto, Ontario are nicknamed the Blue Jays. Seventeen other teams either regularly feature blue hats or utilise the colour in their uniforms. The National Basketball Association, the"
"name. Traditionally, the sport has been mainly referred to as soccer in Australia. However, in 2005, the Australia Soccer Association changed its name to Football Federation Australia, and it now encourages the use of ""football"" to describe the association code in line with international practice. All state organisations, many clubs, and most media outlets have followed its example. The ""Macquarie Dictionary"" observed, writing prior to 2010: ""While it is still the case that, in general use, soccer is the preferred term in Australia for what most of the world calls football, the fact that the peak body in Australia has"
"typically always listed in standings as ""Athletic"" rather than ""Philadelphia"". When called the ""Athletics"" it was the pluralized style of the day, just as the National League entry would have been called the ""Philadelphias"". As early as 1866, the Athletics uniform shirts featured the stylized letter ""A"" that is still used by the team's nominal descendants today. The team had turned professional by the late 1860s, and continued playing through the first year of the National League in 1876, before disbanding. The team name ""Athletic"" was revived by the American Association, and again by the charter Philadelphia entry in the"
"which prohibits similar games back to at least that century. This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua, which utilize ""futbalo"" and ""football"", respectively. In the first half of the 20th century, in Spanish and Portuguese, new words were created to replace ""football"" (""fútbol"" in Spanish and ""futebol"" in Portuguese), ""balompié"" (""balón"" and ""pie"" meaning ""ball"" and ""foot"") and ""ludopédio"" (from words meaning ""game"" and ""foot"") respectively. However, these words were not widely accepted and are now only used in club names such as Real Betis Balompié and Albacete Balompié. Aside from the name of the game"
"teams. Often an Old English letter was worn on the chest. This style survives with the Detroit Tigers and their gothic style ""D"" on their home jerseys and caps and the Oakland Athletics, who currently have an Old English ""A"" on their caps and their alternative jerseys. As official nicknames gained prominence in the early 1900s (in contrast to media-generated and unofficial nicknames of prior generations), pictorial logos began emerging as part of the team's marketing. Some early examples include a small red tiger on the black cap of the 1901 Detroit Tigers, as they were officially the Tigers from"
"more often than ""voetbal"". In the Philippines, both ""soccer"" and ""football"" are used (legacies of both American and Spanish rule). When used while speaking a Philippine language, the English spellings as well as the nativised spellings ""saker"" and ""futbol"" are used. The use of the word ""football"" has spread even more since the Philippine Men's National Football Team achieved semi-final success in the 2010 Suzuki Cup. In Singapore, both ""soccer"" and ""football"" are used. The name of the governing body is the Football Association of Singapore but it is not uncommon for the sport to be referred to as ""soccer"""
"officially adopted the term football for this sport will undoubtedly cause a shift in usage."" This was highlighted shortly afterwards when the Australian Prime Minister, speaking in Melbourne, referred to the sport as football, emphasising her choice when questioned. The Australian men's team is still known by its long-standing nickname, the Socceroos. (The Australian women's team is nicknamed the Matildas.) In New Zealand English, association football has historically been called ""soccer"". As late as 2005, the ""New Zealand Oxford Dictionary"" suggested that in that country ""football"" referred especially to rugby union; it also noted that rugby union was commonly called"
"is traditionally known as ""rugby league"" or just ""league"". Usage of the term ""soccer"" has gone through a period of transition in recent times as the federation changed its name to New Zealand Football from New Zealand Soccer and the nickname of its women's team to ""Football Ferns"" from ""SWANZ"". In South Africa, the word ""football"" generally refers to Association football. However, Association football is commonly known as ""soccer"" despite this. The domestic first division is the Premier Soccer League and both in conversation and the media (see e.g. ""The Sowetan"" or ""Independent Online""), the term ""soccer"" is used. The"
"NATO phonetic alphabet The NATO phonetic alphabet, officially denoted as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, and also commonly known as the ICAO phonetic alphabet, and in a variation also known officially as the ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code, is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet. Although often called ""phonetic alphabets"", spelling alphabets are unrelated to phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet. Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet assigned codewords acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet, so that critical combinations of letters and numbers are most likely to be pronounced and understood"
"generally upper-case). The ångström is a unit of length equal to (one ten-billionth of a meter) or . Unicode also has encoded . However, that is canonically equivalent to the ordinary letter Å. The duplicate encoding at U+212B is due to round-trip mapping compatibility with an East-Asian character encoding, but is otherwise not to be used. The logo of the Major League Baseball team now known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is a capital ""A"" with a halo. Due to the resemblance, Angels fans are known to stylize the name as ""Ångels"". The logo of the ""Stargate"" series"
"listras pretas e vermelhas,<br> ""(Black and red stripes,)""<br> Com o Leão<br> ""(With the Lion)""<br> Erguendo, imponente, o imortal escudo<br> ""(Lifting, imposing the immortal shield)""<br> Mostrando a gente que o Sport é tudo<br> ""(Showing us that the Sport is everything)""<br> Que a vida tem de belo oferecer<br> ""(What a beautiful life has to offer)""<br> Sport, Sport<br> ""(Sport, Sport)""<br> Uma razão para viver<br> ""(A reason to live)"" São gerações e corações<br> ""(Generations and hearts are)""<br> Fazendo a história<br> ""(Making History)""<br> São campeões e emoções<br> ""(They are champions and emotions)""<br> Tecendo a glória<br> ""(Weaving the glory)""<br> Do bravo Leão da Ilha, Sport obsessão<br>"