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Y is for Yuganda 😅. It’s happened to me during my time in call center.
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
You’re missing a few good ones.
A for An
C for Cay
I for In
K for Knight
N as in No (a few of these work with “as in” but not with “for”)
O as in Other
P as in Pose
Q for Qing (since Jalapeño is allowed)
T for The
X as in Xi Jinping
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.
Dang your comment wasn’t there but by the time I copied the link from YouTube you beat me to it.
Great minds think alike.
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
G for Gnu
TIL English doesn’t pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.
G as in gnome.
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.
Bingo Bango Bongo
Day made thank you.
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.
T as in Tardigrade
Woooosh
Or “T as in Ti”
‘T’ as in “TT Quattro Roadster”
M as in Mancy
You of all people, Ray
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
lol
Unfortunately, it’s remained very, very funny.
L as in Lana
A as in Anal
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
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
Bruh… It’s P for “pterodactyl”.
Brotato
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
A for Aardvark
G as in gnosis.
A for Avada Kedavera
You got me there 💀
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 way that my impulsive brain SCREAMS at me to say swear words when I’m doing it… I’d never say like the N word but I just want to say B for Bitch sometimes, y’know? A as in asshole.
“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.
Those pesky phonetically-similar letters! Try “D as in Delay, Deny, Depose”.
G for guillotine
"Oh my bad, my bad …
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
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.
Why are we all not talking like radios??
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
“H as in hilarious”
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.
TBF you could just tell them.
lol. k.
Foxtrot…? Is that some kind of furry thing???
:3
Way to out yourself as an uncultured swine who has never danced foxtrot smdh
“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”
There’s a World’s Worst Alphabet Book that has those.
I personally like the words that sound like other letters: A as in Aye, E as in Eye, S as in See.
I think the E word in that book is Eye lol.
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.
Afer Alex, Beefer Bob, who the fuck are all these people?
Was his name Abraham?
Standard for police is to use the NATO phonetic alphabet simply because it’s what everybody uses and it avoids confusion rather than it necessarily been the best system.
For example prior to the NATO phonetic alphabet the UK military used to have their own, so perhaps that’s where they got it from?
I think it was
Apple.
Bob
Candle.
Can’t remember what D was.
ElizabethStandard for police is to use the NATO phonetic alphabet
idk about other places, but the LAPD don’t.
