phonetic alphabet

There is a children's book with that title that my kids liked when they were small. Thanks for the memory prompt!

Or for psychology

From the book:

A is for Aisle

B is for Bdellium

C is for Czar

D is for Djibouti

E is for Ewe

F is not for Photo, phlegm, phooey, or phone

G is for Gnocchi

H is for Heir

I is not for Eye

J is for Jai Alai

K is for Knight

L is not for Elle

M is Mnemonic

N is not for Knot

O is for Ouija

P is for Pterodactyl

Q is for Quinoa

R is not for Are

S is for Seas

T is for Tsunami

U is not for You

V is for Five

W is Wren

X is for Xylophone

Y is not for Why

Z is for Zhivago

Calm down, Mancy.

I started off nonplussed but by the time I got to the end I was mildly amused.

Same, then I looked to see where this was posted and was able to enjoy it.

You, I see mnemonic aisle 9

After having to learn these for work years ago, my life got a lot easier. Bad phone call? Phonetics, precise radio comms.? Phonetics. Just works, should be taught in every school.

Its cute that romeo and juliet live forever in the phonetic alphabet like this

If Q as in Queue bothers you, you better check what C stands for.

Same for D. And Y. And W.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

The spelling is actually also important for non-english speakers.

Alpha is hard to pronounce if you aren't familiar with English ph, so it should be an F.

Juliet should have two T's to ensure romance language speakers pronounce the T.

I used to work for phone support. First day when I thought I can use the alphabet like pro, then granny and auntie callers complained they don't know that military shit.

I have always pronounced Quebec like "kebek." Many US callers didn't understand it until it's like "cuebek". So I started pronouncing like so. Many US callers didn't understand it until it's "kebek".

Fuck this shit.

Big outs to The Bloodhound Gang

Many of these are two distinct syllables, so even if you get a broken transmission, it’s still intelligible.

m as in mancy n as in bike.

I was on a call earlier with a business and they said S as in Sam. I wanted to correct them, but I thought it wasn't worth it.

You of all people

They really phoned it in when naming it.

phony alphabeta

At least Bravo and Lima are still there?

Edit: Hadn't gotten to L yet lol

information age

How many of these characters predate it by several decades?

reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi

Don't forget the Double-U for the letter D. It's an absolute mess.

Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.

I read it as choonami which is still not very helpful

It should be a "hard ts" which is something we mostly picked up from the French that is also a sound used in Japanese. So there should be a difference between saying "tsu" and saying "sue."

Tsu should be pronounced with teeth together and pushing air out through the teeth first, tongue against the lower front teeth for the hissy-t sound, before the vowel. (it's hard to write how to pronounce a word)

Because Tsunami Three already happened and Tsunami Five hasn't happened yet

That’s “tsunami fower,” private.

Counterpoint: isle starts with the expected I sound so it’s 50/50 odds of getting I correct with aisle/isle. E being Eye and I being Ian (Ee-an) is actually more disruptive.

I always pronounce the G in gnu

At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked

Got one behind me. Thank you for your service.

I use the semaphore code to shit-talk my boss to the fellow cubeslaves across the street from me.

What's ligma?

Who the hell is Steve Jobs?

Just push to production. No approval required

Newyork City Disease?

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"B as in bdellium." Or, "B as in subtle".

Bidet is puzzling enough. Then there's modern portmanteaus like bussy (really, any word that has a more well-known P-word, like blot, will work) and NATO PA soundalikes like bike. And words with stress on other syllables that make the B less distinct, especially evil ones are before and benign for sounding like B4 and B9.

Me?

Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.

"Nevermind" or "Next" would be pretty good.

L could maybe be "Lagos" because there's two cities named that and they're pronounced differently?

B : backslash

D : delete

G : gneiss

H : hour

L : llama

N : nave

P : pterosaur

R : rote

U : urn

V : veldt

X : xerographic

Z : zero

Llama

No idea for Nine, though.

Should be "Bee".

Bee was right there.

Maybe read it again? L is lima, no ‘g’. It and bravo are the only unchanged.

B for Base and V for Vase.

Q as in queso.

Edit: having seen C, I retract my suggestion. Queue is better.

J as in Jragon

Why tsunami four?

I think the joke here is exactly that some of the words are the worst for this purpose.

Looks like the joke flew over your head...

But to indulge your more serious angle, yeah, it's well thought through. And if your source is the one I think it is, that one also packages in that "NATO Phonetic Alphabet" is a bit of a misnomer.

It's not a phonetic alphabet, since it doesn't type out what sounds one must make to pronounce words correctly. And the main devs weren't NATO, but ICAO. NATO was just gonna adopt it and issue some feedback for improvements.