R as in Robert Loggia
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O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"
B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”
E as in, "Egads, that's Robert Loggia"
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
M as in Mancy
You of all people, Ray
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
lol
I once had a client tell me, "T as in... T."
Yeah, that was helpful.
I mean surely it was "T as in Tea"
Or maybe "T as in Tee"
Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.
'T' as in "TT Quattro Roadster"
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.
T as in tardigrade
My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
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"
"Oh my bad, my bad ..
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
Be sure to use L for Luigi when verifying info over the phone with your health insurance.
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
The brilliance is that it works in other languages too. Don't know about French/Italian but for a Norwegian it's usable. Only Charlie, Mike, and Yankee i think would not be understood if said as spelled in Norwegian.
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries