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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

O as in "Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

B as in, “By god, that’s Robert Loggia”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

E as in, "Egads, that's Robert Loggia"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

You of all people, Ray

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

Yeah, that was helpful.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean surely it was "T as in Tea"

Or maybe "T as in Tee"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

'T' as in "TT Quattro Roadster"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

T as in tardigrade

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBF you could just tell them.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"T for Terrorist"

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

"Oh my bad, my bad ..

B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Be sure to use L for Luigi when verifying info over the phone with your health insurance.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A for 'Orses

B for mutton

C for yourself

etc

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

A for Antidisestablishmentarianism

B for Buckminsterfullerene

C for Counterrevolutionaries

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