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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.
Afer Alex, Beefer Bob, who the fuck are all these people?
Was his name Abraham?
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.
Elizabeth
Mas in Mancy!Easy. A is for apple B is for bapple C is for capple …
I love using animals when I do this.
How do you make the animals speak ?
Text often leaves out subtle nuance. In this case, imagine op making a hand gesture something like shaking ketchup out of a bottle.
Years ago I was on the phone with an airline agent and I had to read out my verification number. When I came to the letter V my brain short circuited and the only word I could think of was “vagina”. I sat there in a panic for probably about 10 seconds going “uhhh… uhhh…” before I finally remembered the word “valentine”.
I’m all about that NATO phonetic alphabet - which for some reason rubs certain people answering phones the wrong way.
Can’t say I don’t have a couple substitutions, though (Zebra instead of Zulu, Sam instead of Sierra, Frank instead of Foxtrot), but it’s not like I’m working the radio of an aircraft or something.
Sam and Frank are quite similar
Unrecognisable letter - a - m or n, very similar - unrecognisable could be both (say when it’s loud and you’re talking)
Sierra and Foxtrot are very different and that’s what matters
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Bank, Dank, Gank, Hank, Jank, Lank, Rank, Sank, Tank, Wank
Yeah… not great options, those.
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Whoa, Black Betty!
Bramble jam??
Understood, but these were selected based on what seems to work for your average customer service person/office worker. The amount of times I’ve said ‘Sierra’ and got back C is too many.
Might re-think Frank over Foxtrot, though. That’s more habit than anything else.
Agreed in other contexts these are not the best choices, and there’s a reason they are not that in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
The NATO phonetic alphabet does make some intersting choices. Sierra being particularly bad because over a poor quality radio it can sound a lot like “zero.” the WWII American phonetic alphabet used “sugar.” Able Baker indeed.
I once said Sierra and the guy wrote the letter C, because apparently he might be a physicist, but he was also an idiot
Maybe a fan of singer songwriter Ciara, with her song 1-2 step.
TBH “Sierra” is a pretty obscure word. I didn’t know about it until the Mac OS release with that name. And given how often “c” makes an “s” sound, that sounds like a reasonable mistake to make if you’ve never heard the word before.
Ever heard of Sierra Leone?
gosh I’m old :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment
L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites
Imagine calling support and only using sexual words to spell things.
“R” as in “Robert Loggia”
Literally always what I think of!
“O” as in “Oh my god it’s Robert Loggia!”
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)
I’ve not seen Strongdor in a long time…
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxc674GkBxoTKLUT6Qv5ffO5NQmbrP0DHL
S for… errr S for…
R as in Robert Loggia
O as in “Oh my god, it’s Robert Loggia”
B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”
E as in, “Egads, that’s Robert Loggia”
M as in Mancy?
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.
