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phonetic alphabet
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P is for Pterodactyl.
From the book:
A is for Aisle
B is for Bdellium
C is for Czar
D is for Djibouti
E is for Ewe
F is not for Photo, phlegm, phooey, or phone
G is for Gnocchi
H is for Heir
I is not for Eye
J is for Jai Alai
K is for Knight
L is not for Elle
M is Mnemonic
N is not for Knot
O is for Ouija
P is for Pterodactyl
Q is for Quinoa
R is not for Are
S is for Seas
T is for Tsunami
U is not for You
V is for Five
W is Wren
X is for Xylophone
Y is not for Why
Z is for Zhivago
There is a children's book with that title that my kids liked when they were small. Thanks for the memory prompt!
I own the book.
What are you doing with that person's kid's book?
Probably reading it
Wringing their hands, cackling, tying up schoolmarms on railroad tracks while twiddling mustaches
The unbelievable antics of the fucking literate. Thoz eevul ashowls.
Alfa
Balfa
Calfa
Dalfa
W for why and Y for you is delightful
Lol - "Q as in Queue" hahahaha I bet someone thinks this is official enough to use.
I hope someone uses this, religiously, for life. :)
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Yankee
Zulu
I used to work for phone support. First day when I thought I can use the alphabet like pro, then granny and auntie callers complained they don't know that military shit.
I have always pronounced Quebec like "kebek." Many US callers didn't understand it until it's like "cuebek". So I started pronouncing like so. Many US callers didn't understand it until it's "kebek".
Fuck this shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
The spelling is actually also important for non-english speakers.
Alpha is hard to pronounce if you aren't familiar with English ph, so it should be an F.
Juliet should have two T's to ensure romance language speakers pronounce the T.
Its cute that romeo and juliet live forever in the phonetic alphabet like this
After having to learn these for work years ago, my life got a lot easier. Bad phone call? Phonetics, precise radio comms.? Phonetics. Just works, should be taught in every school.
I find myself on the phone trying to spell something and come up with words that begin with each letter. Agreed that it’s a solved problem and everyone should just learn it.
I taught myself by playing a license plate game, referring to the cars around me by their phonetic license plates "what're you doing bravo whiskey foxtrot foxtrot? You're turning right but indicating left!" It makes road rage more fun.
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I was on a call earlier with a business and they said S as in Sam. I wanted to correct them, but I thought it wasn't worth it.
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Didn't know Englishers skipped the T in tsunami
Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.
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P pneumonia G gnu K knees
I used to do this all the time when I worked at a call center.
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- E: Ewe
- H: Hugh
- U: Uyghur
- Y: Yew
Reading this made my left eye twitch. Good job.
At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked
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I made this phonetic alphabet for the information age
information age
How many of these characters predate it by several decades?
Aladddin and Rapunzel definitely, I think those predate Disney.
reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi
I was getting angry reading this.
Calm down, Mancy.
We’re still doing “phrasing”!
I started off nonplussed but by the time I got to the end I was mildly amused.
bloonk brain fell out error
Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.
NCD is leaking again. Someone get the 100mph tape.
Newyork City Disease?
I always thought it was “G for Gnome” - huh, never too late to learn.
Better suggestions for B:
- Breath: Half the people would say "breathe" instead.
- Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that's pronounced
- Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations
"B as in bdellium." Or, "B as in subtle".
Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that's something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.
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X: how bout either "Xenophobia" or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it's written in English: Xi.
I will always use "M as in 'Mancy'"
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