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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.
Woooosh
T as in Tardigrade
Or “T as in Ti”
‘T’ as in “TT Quattro Roadster”
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
G for Gnu
TIL English doesn’t pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.
G as in gnome.
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.
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.
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…
N as in…
Someone who bother you a lot…
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
“T for Terrorist”
The CS Representative I was talking to: “Sir, this is an Airline”
"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
It’s spelled CENTER.
Centre is British English
Actually centre is french in origin.
Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
“H as in hilarious”
M as in Mancy
L as in Lana
You of all people, Ray
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries
N as in “pneumatic”, U as in “eulogy”, K as in “Québec”…
You’re really trying to mess people up with Québec aren’t you?
My favourite was E as in estrogen
for the brits would it be ‘O’? that is great too.
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.
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?
TBF you could just tell them.
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