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P as in Phoebe
H as in Hoebe
O as in Oebe
E as in EbeM as in Mancy
I have a had time not saying that when having to clarify what letter
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
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
Boh-tah-toe
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
Bruh… It’s P for “pterodactyl”.
I’ve not seen Strongdor in a long time…
I often use “M as in mayhem.” I know it’s “Mike” but that’s boring.
N as in Nike
Gotcha N for nayhem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neum
It’s a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
Obligatory Monk clip
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.
Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.
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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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
"Oh my bad, my bad …
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said “B, as in Alabama”
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 💀
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, “Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django”.
Bingo Bango Bongo
Day made thank you.
Sounds a little… unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
It’s not that the ‘phonetic alphabet’ make any sense either though.
Why should it though, it’s just an agreed upon tool.
