Let's do the phonetic alphabet

[IvorDewdney]

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu

[Ella_Megablast]

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
King
Lima
Mike
November
Orange
Papa
Quebec
Roger
Stevie
Tango
Uniform
Vancouver
Whisky
Xylophone
Yellow
Zebra

18/26. Bizarre how I had to guess for R and S given how popular those letters are

[IvorDewdney]

And I never worked in no call centre neither.

[Octobadger]

I don’t (now) actually think it is a bad thing - it’s just easy to fall into the mindset of hating anyone you speak to when you do that job for a long time!

[Mert_Aksac]

Alpha
Beta
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu

[Icarus-Smicarus]

is I for India or Indigo? i learned it as Indigo but Google says India

[Octobadger]

I think it’s the former - but the call centre I worked in encouraged the latter because it was less likely to have people go off on a racist rant about Indian call centres (we had sales in Glasgow and customer services in India, we got a lot of “Oh thank God somebody in England” calls through to the sales line, which never went well for them).

[daggers]

used to work with (not for) the police and they use this alphabet. never had to learn it myself though. Cheers

[Icarus-Smicarus]

my first call centre was one in Ireland for an American company and apparently when it first opened the Americans were all “oh no not an Irish person, put me through to an American please” but later when they opened an additional call centre in India as well it changed to “oh thank god, an Irish person”

like a hierarchy of acceptable foreigners

[Icarus-Smicarus]

@Octobadger

Used to get really irked when people made up their own. Actually lost my temper once at someone when they said something that might have been B for Ball, D for Doll, P for Paul, T for Tall, etc and wouldn’t clarify further.

never really had this problem but a lot of

says letter
“was that M for Mike or N for November?”
just says letter again

or

“Was that N for November?”
“Yes”
10 minutes later
“I still can’t find your record. It was N for November yeah?”
“No! M!”

[Octobadger]

M for Movember.

[Epimer]

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Engerland
Foxtrot
Gibraltar
Hairybikers
Indigo
Jelly
Kelly
Lima
Melly
Nelly
Orangutan
Peru
Quebec
Ringo
Smelly
Telly
UVAVU
Velcro
Welly
Xylophone
Yolo
Zebra

[wileycat]

I find it really infuriating that Alpha is followed by Bravo and not Beta. Which then got me to wondering why. And then I figured if pronounced with an ee it could be mistaken for Peter. And then I wondered what the correct pronunciation of Beta was because I always assumed it was the American one but this video by Julien Miquel, who I can only assume is an authoritative voice in the pronunciation of things (and wine, apparently) says the British one is closer

How to Pronounce Beta? British Vs. American English Pronunciation

Hope you all enjoyed this recap of the last five minutes.

[Mert_Aksac]

Oh yeah, I don’t know why I said that, my 15 year history of doing shit office jobs and I still can’t get 26 of these pricks right

[zanimos]

In Italy you use town names - A for Ancona, V for Verona etc.

D for Domodossola is a personal favourite - tiny town but I guess nowhere else begins with a D.

[froglet]

Another vote for ‘used to work in a call centre’. I know it but I’m not going to type it all out, you’ll just have to believe me. If I were spelling something out I mainly used to use B for Bertie, M for Mother, etc, as it’s more easily understandable for most people.

@Octobadger

Used to get really irked when people made up their own. Actually lost my temper once at someone when they said something that might have been B for Ball, D for Doll, P for Paul, T for Tall, etc and wouldn’t clarify further.

I had a colleague who used to use both B for Bertie and G for Gertie. That’s not how it works and nobody says Gertie for G, dickhead!

I had a customer once use [blurred for racism] G for gollywog. Hard to know how to react to that one in the moment. Also once I was telling that to two colleagues in my first week at a new job, one of them didn’t know what it meant, so the other one explained and then went on to say that she didn’t think gollywogs were racist.

[Acorn]

I could only remember

Alpha
Bravo
Delta
Foxtrot
Hotel
Indigo
Lima
Papa
Tango
Yankee

Charlie, Echo and Golf are familiar, but the rest didn’t ring a bell much or at all. just never really been exposed to them.

oh is I- not the one I said? probably getting mixed up with the rainbow song…

[ma0sm]

These places are gonna be mad at you

https://www.lodging-world.com/destinations/it/d

[paulo13]

Had someone on the phone at work once spelling their name out for me, using their version of the phonetic alphabet, and so this always stick in my mind whenever I think of it:

N for (k)nife

[GoFasterStripes]

F for phonetic alphabet