• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      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

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    11 days ago

    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

    • teslasaur@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      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.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.

  • subiacOSB@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      could always take them for a ride…

      R as in dit dahh dit

      U as in dit dit dahh

      M as it dahh dahh

  • Liz@midwest.social
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    10 days ago

    Let’s see if I still remember:

    Alpha
    Bravo
    Charlie
    Delta
    Echo
    Foxtrot
    Golf
    Hotel
    Indigo
    Juno
    Kilo
    Lima
    Mike
    November
    Oscar
    P???
    Q???
    Romeo
    S???
    Tango
    U???
    Vector
    W???
    X-ray
    Y??? Z???

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    To make them really uncomfortable, use your sluttiest code words.

    D as in Daddy, M as in Mummy, H as in Harder, P as in Pineapple, that’s my safe word, I’ve never had to use it…