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S for.... errr S for.....
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M as in Mancy?
I worked in a call centre about 10 years ago. one time some old, presumably white, old woman called in and when spelling her name included "N for N****r"
I was dumbfounded
We had those old alphabet books in school where N was "neger"
I believe the print date was around the 1950s. They were placed on bookshelves in classroms full of old books that i guess they never bothered to throw out.
The police rang my house once, and he told me where I could reach them, and spelled out his name. I started writing his name out, but by the fourth name, I was thinking wtf is going on. This guy was spelling out his name by using names for each letter. A for Alex, B for Bob.
Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
A for Aardvark
A for Avada Kedavera
You got me there 💀
R as in Robert Loggia
O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"
B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
nice link lol (at least on sync)
I can remember one time:
"P for Potato",
"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".
Potato
Botato
Brother the explicit purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to make all of the letters audibly distinguishable by ensuring none of them rhyme
Boh-tah-toe
Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".
Brotato
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
T as in tardigrade
I had too many customers get confused when I asked, "and that is pudenda spelled P as in Papa, U as in Uniform..." customer interrupts, "why are you talking like a radio?"
Had a regular that would spell it in NATO, and said he served in artillery. Heard just fine on his good ear, tinittus was just a low hum.
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
G as in gnome.
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Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
The brilliance is that it works in other languages too. Don't know about French/Italian but for a Norwegian it's usable. Only Charlie, Mike, and Yankee i think would not be understood if said as spelled in Norwegian.
M as in Mancy
You of all people, Ray
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
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My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."
Yeah, that was helpful.
'T' as in "TT Quattro Roadster"
A for 'Orses
B for mutton
C for yourself
etc
That's gotta be a two Ronnie's joke
Oh my god, I haven't heard that since my dad died. He was born in London in 1931 ("a true Cockney") and used to say that all the time.
Thanks, that's a nice memory.
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