Talk:Polish alphabet

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I'm not sure how this should be added, if at all, but Poles use first names when spelling aloud: A jak Adam, B jak Barbara, etc. (This doesn't count for most of the letters with diacritics, though: a z ogonkiem, n z kreską, z z kropką, etc.)

The problem is there doesn't seem to be any standard: "Teach Yourself Polish" (ISBN 0-340-87088-5) has "A jak Adam", while the only example I can find on the internet is this joke (http://www.lokozmin.itime.pl/index.php?id=humor):

Dzwoni telefon. Pies odbiera i mówi:
- Hau!
- Halo?
- Hau!
- Nic nie rozumiem.
- Hau!
- Proszę mówić wyraźniej!
- H jak Henryk, A jak Agnieszka, U jak Urszula: Hau!!!

(The phone rings. The dog answers and says:
"Woof!"
"Hello?"
"Woof!"
"I don't understand"
"Woof!"
"Please speak clearly"
"W for water, o for orange, o for orange, f for fish: Woof!")

Any ideas? -- Jim Regan 15:51, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The letters' equivalent values should be included

Seeing as how this is an English language article, the Polish letters should have a chart of comparisons, such as the Romanian Alphabet Tev 01:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)