S for Something which starts with S

P for Pterodactyl

S for Sea

W for Why

E for Eye

G for Gnu

J for Jalapeño

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

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

Yeah, that was helpful.

M as in Mancy

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

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

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

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

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.

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

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 as in tardigrade

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.

M as in Mancy?

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

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.

R as in Robert Loggia

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

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

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

L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites

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

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

A for Antidisestablishmentarianism

B for Buckminsterfullerene

C for Counterrevolutionaries

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

My favourite was E as in estrogen

"R" as in "Robert Loggia"

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".

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

M as in Mancy!

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

Q for queue

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

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

Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.

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

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

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

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

Queuecumber

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

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.

https://lemmy.world/post/23884231

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????

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

J as in George is my personal favorite

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

Y is for Yuganda 😅. It’s happened to me during my time in call center.

It's spelled CENTER.