Alfa
Balfa
Calfa
DalfaP is for Pterodactyl.
There is a children’s book with that title that my kids liked when they were small. Thanks for the memory prompt!
I own the book.
What are you doing with that person’s kid’s book?
Probably reading it
Wringing their hands, cackling, tying up schoolmarms on railroad tracks while twiddling mustaches
The unbelievable antics of the fucking literate. Thoz eevul ashowls.
Nice, can I borrow it? Sounds like a good read
I own you
From the book:
A is for Aisle
B is for Bdellium
C is for Czar
D is for Djibouti
E is for Ewe
F is not for Photo, phlegm, phooey, or phone
G is for Gnocchi
H is for Heir
I is not for Eye
J is for Jai Alai
K is for Knight
L is not for Elle
M is Mnemonic
N is not for Knot
O is for Ouija
P is for Pterodactyl
Q is for Quinoa
R is not for Are
S is for Seas
T is for Tsunami
U is not for You
V is for Five
W is Wren
X is for Xylophone
Y is not for Why
Z is for Zhivago
I’m confused why ten is substituted with a musical instrument
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ That’s what the book uses for J
Or for psychology
P is for plutocracy. Important to learn about and recognize, wtf-does-this-have-to-do-with-a-planet-no-longer-a-planet complicated enough to fit right in
W for why and Y for you is delightful
Don’t forget the Double-U for the letter D. It’s an absolute mess.
C for cue and Q for queue! Evil genius.
I was getting angry reading this.
Calm down, Mancy.
We’re still doing “phrasing”!
I started off nonplussed but by the time I got to the end I was mildly amused.
Upvoted for proper usage of nonplussed!
Same, then I looked to see where this was posted and was able to enjoy it.
You, I see mnemonic aisle 9
Lol - “Q as in Queue” hahahaha I bet someone thinks this is official enough to use.
I hope someone uses this, religiously, for life. :)Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Yankee
ZuluAfter having to learn these for work years ago, my life got a lot easier. Bad phone call? Phonetics, precise radio comms.? Phonetics. Just works, should be taught in every school.
I find myself on the phone trying to spell something and come up with words that begin with each letter. Agreed that it’s a solved problem and everyone should just learn it.
I taught myself by playing a license plate game, referring to the cars around me by their phonetic license plates “what’re you doing bravo whiskey foxtrot foxtrot? You’re turning right but indicating left!” It makes road rage more fun.
The made up shit is so much more fun tho
Its cute that romeo and juliet live forever in the phonetic alphabet like this
It sure is!
If Q as in Queue bothers you, you better check what C stands for.
Same for D. And Y. And W.
C is especially bad because Cue pronounced the same as Queue (if my English isn’t too bad). The others are at least consisted once you accepted the absurdity. Also you forgot S and E in your list
I used to work for phone support. First day when I thought I can use the alphabet like pro, then granny and auntie callers complained they don’t know that military shit.
I have always pronounced Quebec like “kebek.” Many US callers didn’t understand it until it’s like “cuebek”. So I started pronouncing like so. Many US callers didn’t understand it until it’s “kebek”.
Fuck this shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
The spelling is actually also important for non-english speakers.
Alpha is hard to pronounce if you aren’t familiar with English ph, so it should be an F.
Juliet should have two T’s to ensure romance language speakers pronounce the T.
Big outs to The Bloodhound Gang
Many of these are two distinct syllables, so even if you get a broken transmission, it’s still intelligible.
m as in mancy n as in bike.
I was on a call earlier with a business and they said S as in Sam. I wanted to correct them, but I thought it wasn’t worth it.
posted before, but this is still my go-to:
Didn’t know Englishers skipped the T in tsunami
Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.
Especially at the start of words, see also e.g. pterodactyl, which from what I’ve gathered native english speakers just pronounce without the p.
I think we need to be more consistent with it, time to drop the ‘p’ sound from helicopter as per its roots.
It should be a “hard ts” which is something we mostly picked up from the French that is also a sound used in Japanese. So there should be a difference between saying “tsu” and saying “sue.”
Tsu should be pronounced with teeth together and pushing air out through the teeth first, tongue against the lower front teeth for the hissy-t sound, before the vowel. (it’s hard to write how to pronounce a word)
I read it as choonami which is still not very helpful
From the creators of sharknado, now (bwaaam) choonami 🚂🌊
As someone who had to learn the actual NATO alphabet, if I look too hard at this, I’m likely to give myself a stroke.
I made this phonetic alphabet for the information age
information age
How many of these characters predate it by several decades?
The idea isn’t that the characters are new, it’s that the names are more widespread than something like the Foxtrot dance, which many people alive today have never heard of.
Aladddin and Rapunzel definitely, I think those predate Disney.
reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi
P pneumonia G gnu K knees
I used to do this all the time when I worked at a call center.
I always pronounce the G in gnu
In the software, the official position is that the G in GNU is pronounced. But for the animal known as a gnu, the g isn’t pronounced.
animal? what, is there an animal called gnu? that’s news to me
Have you seen the GNU logo?
Ever since Lion King came out the “wildebeest” name has been much more common.
But the most commonly used logo for the GNU software is an anthropomorphized gnu.
This makes me irrationally angry. Well done!
This is diabolical. Thanks, I hate it.
Reading this made my left eye twitch. Good job.
At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked
That’s the exact train of thought I went through!
I will always use “M as in ‘Mancy’”
You of all people
I just realized the irony in “Phonetic Alphabet” phonetically starting with the “F” sound
They really phoned it in when naming it.
phony alphabeta
At least Bravo and Lima are still there?
Edit: Hadn’t gotten to L yet lol
