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Y is for Yuganda 😅. It’s happened to me during my time in call center.
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
T as in tsunami.
P as in phone.
K as in knife or knee.
G as in gnostic.
X as in xylophone.
D as in djembe.
M as mnemonic.
O as in opossum in certain locales.
U as in updog
I can remember one time:
“P for Potato”,
“B for… err… i dunno, Botato?”.
Potato
Botato
Brother the explicit purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to make all of the letters audibly distinguishable by ensuring none of them rhyme
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
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
We had those old alphabet books in school where N was “neger”
I believe the print date was around the 1950s. They were placed on bookshelves in classroms full of old books that i guess they never bothered to throw out.
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?
“R” as in “Robert Loggia”
“O” as in “Oh my god it’s Robert Loggia!”
R as in Robert Loggia
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries
A for 'Orses
B for mutton
C for yourself
etc
Q for queue
N as in “pneumatic”, U as in “eulogy”, K as in “Québec”…
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
