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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
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”.
Sounds a little… unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
Day made thank you.
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.
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.
Dang your comment wasn’t there but by the time I copied the link from YouTube you beat me to it.
T as in tsunami.
P as in phone.
K as in knife or knee.
G as in gnostic.
X as in xylophone.
D as in djembe.
M as mnemonic.
O as in opossum in certain locales.
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
