P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
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.
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
Sounds a little.. unchained
I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."
Yeah, that was helpful.
I mean surely it was "T as in Tea"
Or maybe "T as in Tee"
Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.
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
Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.
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
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.
"T for Terrorist"
The CS Representative I was talking to: "Sir, this is an Airline"
Be sure to use L for Luigi when verifying info over the phone with your health insurance.
"Oh my bad, my bad ..
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot etc. it's SO HELPFUL when talking on the phone. I learned them all because no one could figure out my name.
T as in tardigrade
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.
M as in Mancy?
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
My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
R as in Robert Loggia
O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
Easy. A is for apple B is for bapple C is for capple ...
Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries
Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.
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".
A few months ago I expended the effort and learned that goddamn alphabet. Guess what? Haven’t needed it since. All gone.
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
Related communities:
