‘In two days I am transferred at one in the ack emma to here.’
‘Their hours, which I strongly suspect to be irregular, are 10 in the pip emma to the same in the ack emma.’
‘I plan to spend ack emma hunting butterflies and pip emma reading my favorite American authors, Webster, Scudder, and Gray.’
‘Friday night, 3 ack emma, Menna fell out of her bed onto the bedside table.’
‘On the other hand, I have a vision that this level of participation would involve an awful lot of bleary-eyed ol’ Dad having to stagger off to the pool at five ack emma.’
Origin
Early 20th century signallers' name for these letters.
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