I made this phonetic alphabet for the information age
Lol - “Q as in Queue” hahahaha I bet someone thinks this is official enough to use.
I hope someone uses this, religiously, for life. :)Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Yankee
ZuluBig outs to The Bloodhound Gang
Many of these are two distinct syllables, so even if you get a broken transmission, it’s still intelligible.
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.
I find myself on the phone trying to spell something and come up with words that begin with each letter. Agreed that it’s a solved problem and everyone should just learn it.
Its cute that romeo and juliet live forever in the phonetic alphabet like this
It sure is!
I is for “imagine”
M is for “me”
A is for the letter “a”
G is for “gee!”
I is for…“imagine”
N is for “nice”
E is for “Egad!”
I said “imagine” twice!
M as in Mancy
I like how they left “Lima” alone.
I helped design the original, always funny to see it out in the wild. Also llama would’ve been a better option for lima.
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.
There’s gotta be better than Nine and Lima!
Neigh? Nor?
Lloyd? Lear?
“Nevermind” or “Next” would be pretty good.
L could maybe be “Lagos” because there’s two cities named that and they’re pronounced differently?
Oh, so L could be “lead”! Or similarly “live”
I like that because you can change it every other L, lol.
Llama
No idea for Nine, though.
Nine is evil because it’s a valid character. When you are using a phonetic alphabet, you don’t say “N as in Nine”. The whole point is to speed up communication over crappy connections. Adding “as in” afterwards defeats the purpose of having a standard.
As for L, I would go with “Letter”.
If I worked in an office, I’d print this and stick it to my wall. See if anyone notices.
A for Horses
B for Mutton
C for Yourself
D for Dumb
E for Brick
F for Vessence
G for
H for
I for One
J for Oranges
K for
L for Leather
M for
N for
O for God’s Sake
P for
Q for Ages
R for Mo
S for
T for Baghdad
U for Mism
V for
W for
X for Breakfast
Y for
Z for
Can’t remember the rest. I feel like Y should be really obvious, but I’ve not even thought about this since I was a kid
this is so evil 🤣🤣🤣
LANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
P is for Pterodactyl.
Or for psychology
There is a children’s book with that title that my kids liked when they were small. Thanks for the memory prompt!
I own the book.
What are you doing with that person’s kid’s book?
Nice, can I borrow it? Sounds like a good read
I own you
WTF is this???
Why tsunami four?
As someone who had to learn the actual NATO alphabet, if I look too hard at this, I’m likely to give myself a stroke.
This is diabolical. Thanks, I hate it.
