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You know that scene in Archer where he spells "M as in Mancy" over the radio because he doesn't know the phonetic alphabet? I've legitimately had that with pho
by scrollaway 6y ago
You know that scene in Archer where he spells "M as in Mancy" over the radio because he doesn't know the phonetic alphabet?
I've legitimately had that with phone operators. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a CSR spell out "D for Doris" over an atrocious phone line.
- mkl 6y agoOr was it "T for torus"? Seems a pretty bad choice, unless there was context that it was always names or something.
- sneak 6y agoThe informal civilian convention does indeed use given names. The names themselves are not standardized though so it's not a very good system.
- scrollaway 6y agoI had heard B for Boris, so there's that. :) If only there were some kind of standard of which names to give for which letter, eh?
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoIt's a feature that you can use it without learning anything.
- matsemann 6y agoI always do M for mnemonic when spelling my name. A for aisle etc..
- knorker 6y ago— "M for menemonic, I for isle", roger. — No, my name is not Roger
- rauhl 6y agoOn that note, I rather like this list: https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/Words/alphabet.html https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/Words/alphabet.html AURAL BDELLIUM CUE DJINN And it gets worse!
- scrollaway 6y agoOh my god, this is brilliant. "S as in Serial" and "Y as in You" are two I'll definitely be using if I want to be annoying.