M as in Mancy?
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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.
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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.
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R as in Robert Loggia
O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"
Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
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)
Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
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.
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
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I can remember one time:
"P for Potato",
"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".
Brotato
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
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Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".
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.
T as in tardigrade
My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
Bingo Bango Bongo
Sounds a little.. unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
Day made thank you.
When I used it everyday I knew it by heart. Now its faded from the forefront of my mind and sometimes it just isn't worth the effort to recall it. If it mattered I would care.