function Get-PhoneticString{
    param(
        [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true, Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$StringToExplode,
        [string]$Delimiter = " - "
    )
    process{
        # Alphabetic conversions using military phonetics
        $phoneticAlphabet = @{
            "a" = "alfa"; "b" = "bravo"; "c" = "charlie"; "d" = "delta"; "e" = "echo";
            "f" = "foxtrot"; "g" = "golf"; "h" = "hotel"; "i" = "india"; "j" = "juliett";
            "k" = "kilo"; "l" = "lima"; "m" = "mike"; "n" = "november"; "o" = "oscar";
            "p" = "papa"; "q" = "quebec"; "r" = "romeo"; "s" = "sierra"; "t" = "tango";
            "u" = "uniform"; "v" = "victor"; "w" = "whiskey"; "x" = "x-ray"; "y" = "yankee";
            "z" = "zulu"
        }

        $numberAsString = @{
            "0"="zero"; "1"="one"; "2"="two"; "3"="three"; "4"="four"
            "5"="five"; "6"="six"; "7"="seven"; "8"="eight"; "9"="nine"
        }

        $symbolAsString = @{
            "!" = "Exclamation Mark"; '"' = "Double Quote"; "#" = "Number Sign"; "$" = "Dollar"; "%" = "Percent"; "&" = "Ampersand"
            "'" = "Single Quote"; "(" = "Left Parenthesis"; ")" = "Right Parenthesis"; "*" = "Asterisk"; "+" = "Plus"
            "," = "Comma"; "-" = "Minus"; "." = "Period"; "/" = "Slash"; ":" = "Colon"; ";" = "Semicolon"; "<" = "Less Than"
            "=" = "Equality Sign"; ">" = "Greater Than"; "?" = "Question Mark"; "@" = "At Sign"; "[" = "Left Square Bracket"
            "" = "Backslash"; "]" = "Right Square Bracket"; "^" = "Caret"; "_" = "Underscore"; '`' = "Grave / Accent"
            "{" = "Left Curly Bracket"; "|" = "Vertical Bar"; "}" = "Right Curly Bracket"
        }

        # Convert this string into a character array. For each character find its string equivilent in one of the defined hash tables
        ($StringToExplode.ToCharArray() |  ForEach-Object{
            switch -Regex -CaseSensitive ($_){
                "[a-z]"{$phoneticAlphabet."$_"}
                "[A-Z]"{($phoneticAlphabet."$_").ToUpper()}
                "d"{$numberAsString."$_"}
                "s"{$_}# Return whitespace unaltered
                default{ $symbolAsString."$_"}
            }
        }) -join $Delimiter
    }

}

"K0D3R3v13w" | Get-PhoneticString
KILO - zero - DELTA - three - ROMEO - three - victor - one - three - whiskey