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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

M as in Mancy?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You got me there 💀

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

nice link lol (at least on sync)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (5 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Boh-tah-toe

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My eternal gratitude to anyone who can find the old Jonathan Katz stand up bit where he was spelling things out ridiculously to a 411 representative. I must have taped over my old VHS with it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

T as in tardigrade

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