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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 46 minutes ago

M as in Mancy?

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes ago
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"

[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 7 points 5 hours ago

B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”

[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago

nice link lol (at least on sync)

[–] Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 36 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

Boh-tah-toe

Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 61 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Bingo Bango Bongo

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

Sounds a little.. unchained

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

T as in tardigrade

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 91 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (8 children)

P for Pterodactyl

S for Sea

W for Why

E for Eye

G for Gnu

J for Jalapeño

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 50 points 14 hours ago (4 children)
[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

You of all people, Ray

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.

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[–] dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 62 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."

Yeah, that was helpful.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 75 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I mean surely it was "T as in Tea"

Or maybe "T as in Tee"

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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

A for 'Orses

B for mutton

C for yourself

etc

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

That's gotta be a two Ronnie's joke

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh my god, I haven't heard that since my dad died. He was born in London in 1931 ("a true Cockney") and used to say that all the time.

Thanks, that's a nice memory.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 26 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

TBF you could just tell them.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Foxtrot...? Is that some kind of furry thing????

:3

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Way to out yourself as an uncultured swine who has never danced foxtro smdh

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