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
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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.
A for Aardvark
A for Avada Kedavera
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
Brotato
Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
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.
My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
M as in Mancy
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
You of all people, Ray
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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.
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
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A for 'Orses
B for mutton
C for yourself
etc
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.
Foxtrot...? Is that some kind of furry thing????
:3
TBF you could just tell them.
I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."
Yeah, that was helpful.
"T for Terrorist"
The CS Representative I was talking to: "Sir, this is an Airline"
"Oh my bad, my bad ..
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
Be sure to use L for Luigi when verifying info over the phone with your health insurance.
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries
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