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P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
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
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.
U as in updog
Dang your comment wasn’t there but by the time I copied the link from YouTube you beat me to it.
Great minds think alike.
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
G as in gnome.
G for Gnu
TIL English doesn’t pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.
Always been a petty pet peeve of mine. When I was training customer service reps I’d hand out a sheet and suggest they nail it up in their cube.
So much easier when everyone’s on the same page. The military uses the phonetic alphabet because it’s crystal clear, even over sketchy coms.
Why would you make up some bullshit of your own, having to constantly stop and think about it, when the pros already have a working system?! FFS, you don’t even have to make the effort to memorize it, just use it a few times, done, it’s in your head forever. Now I’m getting mad. (Told you I was petty about this.)
Anyone know why they use “niner”? Doesn’t seem to mix up with other numbers.
EDIT: That’s 2 band names I came out with today.
Petty Pet Peeve™
Anal Rail Gun™
Niner is because it’s the NATO phonetic alphabet, and they don’t want it to get mixed up with nein.
That simple?! FINALLY makes sense, and I’ve been wondering for years and years.
No, the actual answer is that ‘Nine’ can sound like ‘Five’ on a bad line.
What an odd take. Why should people memorize something they pretty much never need? Just because using a different word might inconvenience someone a tiny bit at some point in time?
If you talk to people on the phone for a living, yes, use a consistent and unambiguous system for reading out letters and numbers.
It’s also beneficial for the customer to do so. Conversations go much faster when everyone is singing from the same sheet.
As to need? Do you never call for customer or tech support? There’s always something that needs repeated or spelled out.
I worked at an IT call center and put the page on my cubicle wall. So much easier for reading off model/serial numbers.
Guessing you had it burned into your brain in a few days? Super simple stuff.
Okay, that’s K, as in KY Jelly. O, as in OnlyFans. L as in Lo Wang. A as in Asshole. N as in…
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Neighbor, it’s definitely my neighbors
Oooof I know the word but I don’t think I should say it.
It’s NAGGERS the answer is NAGGERS.
You hate your neighbor that much? /j
N for N*twork
I couldn’t kind Kentucky Jelly but I did find this, https://tastykitchen.com/recipes/canning/kentucky-bar-fight-jam/
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, “Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django”.
Sounds a little… unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
Day made thank you.
Bingo Bango Bongo
A for 'Orses
B for mutton
C for yourself
etc
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.
That’s gotta be a two Ronnie’s joke
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
A for Aardvark
G as in gnosis.
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You got me there 💀
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.
Was his name Abraham?
Afer Alex, Beefer Bob, who the fuck are all these people?
Standard for police is to use the NATO phonetic alphabet simply because it’s what everybody uses and it avoids confusion rather than it necessarily been the best system.
For example prior to the NATO phonetic alphabet the UK military used to have their own, so perhaps that’s where they got it from?
I think it was
Apple.
Bob
Candle.
Can’t remember what D was.
ElizabethStandard for police is to use the NATO phonetic alphabet
idk about other places, but the LAPD don’t.
“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”
There’s a World’s Worst Alphabet Book that has those.
I personally like the words that sound like other letters: A as in Aye, E as in Eye, S as in See.
I think the E word in that book is Eye lol.
M as in Mancy?
My favourite was E as in estrogen
for the brits would it be ‘O’? that is great too.
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"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.
Those pesky phonetically-similar letters! Try “D as in Delay, Deny, Depose”.
G for guillotine
Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.
Pretty sure there was once a chain of salad bar type restaurants named QCumber
Cucumber is a testing framework (more or less). So I could see it as some company doing consulting. https://cucumber.io/
A tech startup in the Bond universe.
I bet they manufacture AI-enabled vibrators
“At Q-cumber, we bring the innovation and synergy of AI into the bedroom, to maximalize your pleasure in the bed, either with a close partner or not.”
Which entitles Benedikt Cumberbatch to an unencumbered cucumber cumberbund.
“R” as in “Robert Loggia”
“O” as in “Oh my god it’s Robert Loggia!”
Literally always what I think of!
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.
TBF you could just tell them.
lol. k.
Foxtrot…? Is that some kind of furry thing???
:3
Way to out yourself as an uncultured swine who has never danced foxtrot smdh
Way to out yourself as an uncultured swine who has never
danced foxtrotlistened to the bloodhound gang smdhWhat do you think I dance foxtrot to?
I once had a client tell me, “T as in… T.”
Yeah, that was helpful.
I mean surely it was “T as in Tea”
Or maybe “T as in Tee”
Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.
T as in Tardigrade
Woooosh
Or “T as in Ti”
‘T’ as in “TT Quattro Roadster”
