Easy. A is for apple B is for bapple C is for capple ...
I'm all about that NATO phonetic alphabet - which for some reason rubs certain people answering phones the wrong way.
Can't say I don't have a couple substitutions, though (Zebra instead of Zulu, Sam instead of Sierra, Frank instead of Foxtrot), but it's not like I'm working the radio of an aircraft or something.
Sam and Frank are quite similar
Unrecognisable letter - a - m or n, very similar - unrecognisable could be both (say when it's loud and you're talking)
Sierra and Foxtrot are very different and that's what matters
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma'am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Bank, Dank, Gank, Hank, Jank, Lank, Rank, Sank, Tank, Wank
Yeah.. not great options, those.
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma'am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Whoa, Black Betty!
Understood, but these were selected based on what seems to work for your average customer service person/office worker. The amount of times I've said 'Sierra' and got back C is too many.
Might re-think Frank over Foxtrot, though. That's more habit than anything else.
Agreed in other contexts these are not the best choices, and there's a reason they are not that in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
A few months ago I expended the effort and learned that goddamn alphabet. Guess what? Haven’t needed it since. All gone.
Count your blessings, sucks having to get on the phone and play the spelling game
L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites
"R" as in "Robert Loggia"
"O" as in "Oh my god it's Robert Loggia!"
Literally always what I think of!
Years ago I was on the phone with an airline agent and I had to read out my verification number. When I came to the letter V my brain short circuited and the only word I could think of was "vagina". I sat there in a panic for probably about 10 seconds going "uhhh... uhhh..." before I finally remembered the word "valentine".
M as in Mancy?
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxc674GkBxoTKLUT6Qv5ffO5NQmbrP0DHL?si=UbzKelkhT9ngvQ_w
S for.... errr S for.....
I've not seen Strongdor in a long time...
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.
Was his name Abraham?
Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
R as in Robert Loggia
O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"
B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”
E as in, "Egads, that's Robert Loggia"
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
Sounds a little.. unchained
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
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
Boh-tah-toe
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced "po-tah-to".
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
G for Gnu
TIL English doesn't pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.
G as in gnome.
Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
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