S for Something which starts with S

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...

I have a friend who, years later, still brings up when I said "K as In Cat." That poor customer

J as in George is my personal favorite

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????

P as in Phoebe
H as in Hoebe
O as in Oebe
E as in Ebe

The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.

My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said "B, as in Alabama"

For anyone who needs it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

Queuecumber

M as in Mancy!

Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.

If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.

Q for queue

Germans use ČS for "Tschechoslowakei". Yes, really − not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.

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!

“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”

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.

Easy. A is for apple B is for bapple C is for capple ...

L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites

A few months ago I expended the effort and learned that goddamn alphabet. Guess what? Haven’t needed it since. All gone.

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".

M as in Mancy?

"R" as in "Robert Loggia"

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

Love my copy of "P is for Pterodactyl". Great book, very uneducational.

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.

My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".

P for Pterodactyl

S for Sea

W for Why

E for Eye

G for Gnu

J for Jalapeño

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".

R as in Robert Loggia

M as in Mancy

I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."

Yeah, that was helpful.

I had too many customers get confused when I asked, "and that is pudenda spelled P as in Papa, U as in Uniform..." customer interrupts, "why are you talking like a radio?"

Had a regular that would spell it in NATO, and said he served in artillery. Heard just fine on his good ear, tinittus was just a low hum.

C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxc674GkBxoTKLUT6Qv5ffO5NQmbrP0DHL?si=UbzKelkhT9ngvQ_w

S for.... errr S for.....

T as in tardigrade

Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand

alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot etc. it's SO HELPFUL when talking on the phone. I learned them all because no one could figure out my name.

"T for Terrorist"

The CS Representative I was talking to: "Sir, this is an Airline"

My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"

I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.

A for 'Orses

B for mutton

C for yourself

etc

N as in "pneumatic", U as in "eulogy", K as in "Québec"...

C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:

A for Antidisestablishmentarianism

B for Buckminsterfullerene

C for Counterrevolutionaries

My favourite was E as in estrogen

Always been a petty pet peeve of mine. When I was training customer service reps I'd hand out a sheet and suggest they nail it up in their cube.

So much easier when everyone's on the same page. The military uses the phonetic alphabet because it's crystal clear, even over sketchy coms.

Why would you make up some bullshit of your own, having to constantly stop and think about it, when the pros already have a working system?! FFS, you don't even have to make the effort to memorize it, just use it a few times, done, it's in your head forever. Now I'm getting mad. (Told you I was petty about this.)

Anyone know why they use "niner"? Doesn't seem to mix up with other numbers.

EDIT: That's 2 band names I came out with today.

Petty Pet Peeve™

Anal Rail Gun™

https://lemmy.world/post/23884231

I often use "M as in mayhem." I know it's "Mike" but that's boring.

Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.

Obligatory Monk clip

My eternal gratitude to anyone who can find the old Jonathan Katz stand up bit where he was spelling things out ridiculously to a 411 representative. I must have taped over my old VHS with it.

It's spelled CENTER.