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P as in Phoebe
H as in Hoebe
O as in Oebe
E as in EbeM as in Mancy
I have a had time not saying that when having to clarify what letter
The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.
Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.
I bet they manufacture AI-enabled vibrators
“At Q-cumber, we bring the innovation and synergy of AI into the bedroom, to maximalize your pleasure in the bed, either with a close partner or not.”
Which entitles Benedikt Cumberbatch to an unencumbered cucumber cumberbund.
A tech startup in the Bond universe.
Cucumber is a testing framework (more or less). So I could see it as some company doing consulting. https://cucumber.io/
Pretty sure there was once a chain of salad bar type restaurants named QCumber
Mas in Mancy!My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said “B, as in Alabama”
Q for queue
For anyone who needs it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
I have a friend who, years later, still brings up when I said “K as In Cat.” That poor customer
Just say you’re Dutch, where cat translates to kat
If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.
could always take them for a ride…
R as in
dit dahh ditU as in
dit dit dahhM as it
dahh dahh…
What’s interesting is hearing sugar for S. I looked it up and it looks like there was a different phonetic alphabet that used sugar for S. But yeah, whatever works works.
J as in George is my personal favorite
J as in jalapeño
Queuecumber
To make them really uncomfortable, use your sluttiest code words.
D as in Daddy, M as in Mummy, H as in Harder, P as in Pineapple, that’s my safe word, I’ve never had to use it…
“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”
There’s a World’s Worst Alphabet Book that has those.
I personally like the words that sound like other letters: A as in Aye, E as in Eye, S as in See.
I think the E word in that book is Eye lol.
I used to have to be on the phones A LOT, and when I was requested to do this I would use the “Pasta Phoenetic” alphabet. You wouldn’t believe how many different types of pasta there is!
Google isn’t finding anything for me, did you make it up yourself?
Haha, yes I did. I ended up making a list for my coworkers… I do remember like 3 or 4 letters with no real match, so had to get creative with those.
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.
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.
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.
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.
gosh I’m old :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment
Ever heard of Sierra Leone?
nope :(
