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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
J as in George is my personal favorite
J as in jalapeño
Let’s see if I still remember:
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
Indigo
Juno
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
P???
Q???
Romeo
S???
Tango
U???
Vector
W???
X-ray
Y??? Z???Doing this off the top of my head too but I think it’s
- J for Juliet
- P for Papa
- Q for Cucumber
- S for Sierra
- U for Uniform
- V for Victor
- W for Whiskey
- Y for Yankee
- Z for Zulu
This is had me rolling, everything else is spot on then cucumber
P for Pneumatic
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
My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said “B, as in Alabama”
The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.
For anyone who needs it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Queuecumber
Mas in Mancy!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.
Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.
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
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.
Q for queue
It’s not that the ‘phonetic alphabet’ make any sense either though.
Why should it though, it’s just an agreed upon tool.
Germans use ČS for “Tschechoslowakei”. Yes, really − not only is Č not in the word, it’s also not in the German alphabet.
not only is Č not in the word, it’s also not in the German alphabet.
Well, it could be… suppose the German alphabet decided it needed Lebensraum and decided to annex the Sudeten alphabet.
Akshully, the Sudeten annexed in 1938 were specifically chosen as German-speaking regions
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.
