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And here I thought this was the phonetic alphabet… you know where all sounds have a phoneme.
C as in queueueue as in alpha queuque
“I” should be “Isle”.
The real troll is leaving Bravo
And Lima
Should’ve been Ligma
What’s ligma?
@Trex202 @cannedtuna I thought it should be Bdellium?
- A as in Aight
- B as in Bye
- C as in Cite
- D as in Deign
- E as in Eight
- F as in Foto
- G as Ghee
- H as in Hale
- I as in Ire
- J as Jose
- K as in Kneel
- L as in Llama
- M as in Mow
- N as in Nigh
- O as in Ohm
- P as Phone
- Q as Quoin
- R as in Row
- S as in Site
- T as in Thine
- U as in Ute
- V as View
- W as in Woo
- X as in Xerxes
- Y as in Yow
- Z as in Zillow
M as in “Mancy”
Honestly this doesn’t bother me half as bad as the ‘M as in’ part does. It should be
Mancy
Alpha
Romeo
Bravo
Lima
EchoNot:
M as in Mancy
A as in Alpha
R as in Romeo
B as in Bravo
L as in Lima
E as in EchoIt’s a reference to Archer.
True but also, people are stupid/ easily confused and have a lot of trouble figuring out what you mean unless you use the “As In” description.
Source : I both take and make a lot of support calls. I’d say about 1 in 5 or so people can handle the NATO alphabet at a normal speaking speed.
Yeah I just rattle off actual phonetic alphabet elements when on the phone with anyone I have to give long alphanumeric strings to. Occasionally it throws people off until they understand what I’m doing, but usually it is clearly understood on the first try.
We still quote this when doing crosswords etc.
I gave my nephew a book “p is for pterodactyl, the worst alphabet book ever” I think the adults liked it more than he did
Here is a similar song https://youtu.be/nQLv7zrJk9U
The banter at the end is fucking hilarious
Their whole “kids” album is great
But Carthage was razed, we don’t need the phonetic alphabet anymore
It drives me crazy that people skip the ‘t’ in ‘tsunami’. Do you want a vinegar wave? That’s how we get vinegar waves
For all the bad rep French gets about not pronouncing letters in words, at least the t in tsunami is clearly pronounced. As is the p in psychologie, pseudo and pneumonie.
While it’s true from an English speaker’s perspective, to a non-native whose alphabet contains the ‘ts’ sound as a separate letter: there’s no ‘t’ sound in our ‘ts’ sound (which is just the letter ‘c’ for us - boring details in the spoiler section), since it’s not a series of ‘t’ and ‘s’, but one consistent sound on its own, deserving its own letter.
So we would naturally say the ‘ts’ in tsunami doesn’t have a ‘t’ or an ‘s’ (or any silent letter) in it.
spoiler
The 3 c’s in ‘pacific ocean’ are all pronounced differently. We don’t have that madness. Spelling to pronunciation is consistent. The first ‘c’ is just an ‘s’ sound, so we just use our letter for the ‘s’ sound. Which is ‘sz’. It might look weird, but only because the letter ‘s’ is preserved for the ‘sh’ sound. Unusual, but consistent. The middle ‘c’ is pronounced ‘k’. We just use ‘k’ when it sounds like ‘k’. So what do we use ‘c’ for? The ‘ts’ sound. Consistently. ‘tsunami’ is spelled ‘cunami’ here.
This is why it sounded so weird when as a kid I watched an American film and they looked at a written word and went “How do you pronounce it?”. WTF mate, it’s written right there!
