Next time use 'xylophone' instead

The police use words like "Tango", "Hotel", and "Juliet" to avoid confusion when calling in letters on license plates.

Sometimes, one of the sergeants told me, the officer can't readily remember the word that corresponds to the letter, especially letters like "U" and "Z."

Then he burst out laughing. "I remember this one officer who was trying to remember the word for 'z' and he couldn't think of it. So finally he said 'Xerox.'"