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L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites
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”.
“R” as in “Robert Loggia”
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxc674GkBxoTKLUT6Qv5ffO5NQmbrP0DHL
S for… errr S for…
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.
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.
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
A for Aardvark
G as in gnosis.
A for Avada Kedavera
You got me there 💀
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”
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 can remember one time:
“P for Potato”,
“B for… err… i dunno, Botato?”.
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
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
Boh-tah-toe
Bruh… It’s P for “pterodactyl”.
Brotato
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, “Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django”.
Bingo Bango Bongo
Sounds a little… unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
Day made thank you.
T as in tardigrade
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
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.
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
