Whoever did this deserves to burn in hell.
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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
Echo
Not:
M as in Mancy
A as in Alpha
R as in Romeo
B as in Bravo
L as in Lima
E as in Echo
It'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.
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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.
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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
"G as in Gif" would have been much more evil.
I like it. G as in gif, J as in Jif
Petersonian?!
Almost crying trying to explain why it's more convenient to pronounce GIF with a hard G, while people pronounce it with J, and how it makes it easy to confuse with the JIF format
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"I" should be "Isle".
Yeah that was a low-hanging fruit they left on the branch
Isn't the point that Ian sounds like it should start with an E, where Isle sounds like it should start with an I?
Should have made N 'night' just to really fuck with K.
And I as in Isle
Queue is my favorite. lol
Cue is my favourite too!
Ha! I made one of these quite a few years ago too.
P should be Pterodactyl.
This is giving me an aneurysm...
I curse you!
I curse you with balls-fall-off disease, and lupis.
And not the one with the wolves...
Dr. House will cure them immediately with a diagnosis of lupus. Huntington's might be better.
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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.
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I don't know why, but I burst out laughing at "Queue"
Funnily enough, I learned something about the peace sign from this.
Mancy Nancy and Oancy are upset at being omitted
This ...is not the NATO alphabet and I also don't get the joke, aside from the Archer references.
What gives?
They are as bad as possible.
Y = you, or is that U? Sorry please repeat.
F as in four, what? 4?
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But Carthage was razed, we don’t need the phonetic alphabet anymore
- 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
And here I thought this was the phonetic alphabet... you know where all sounds have a phoneme.
You of all people.
They can have Mancy from me when they pry it from my cold dad hands.
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