Short article and medium-length video (23 minutes) over at The SWLing Post. Both informative, and you get to see the well-worn reasoning behind the word choices.
Bonus, here's what NATO has to say on the matter. It doesn't get more official than that.
About all I can add is that I can't see any reason to use anything other than this phonetic spelling alphabet. Perhaps if you're on the local repeater where there's no chance of being misunderstood and there's maybe a little good humor involved, sure, go ahead. For example, a friend now passed had a call that ended in "ILR." Often he would often say it as "I Love Radio," rather than "India Lima Romeo." We all understood both the call sign and the small jest; it was appropriate in the context. Beyond these sorts of special cases, other alphabet systems are just an invitation to confusion.
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