The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

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  @RobWords · 11 months ago · pinned

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  @WillLaPuerta · 11 months ago

  I worked for years with a guy who would say &quot;P as in Pterodactyl,&quot; just to drive his students bonkers.

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  @masars338 · 11 months ago (edited)

  I work at a job where clients spell things for me over the phone. Once had someone say to me “E as in ‘eye’”

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  @zdenekvilusinsky1360 · 10 months ago

  &quot;Everybody hated it&quot; is just another way to say &quot;a perfect compromise&quot; :D

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  @WolfSeril107 · 9 months ago

  I wish we taught this alphabet in school. I remember once on the phone I couldn&apos;t tell if someone was saying B or P, and she said &quot;P as in Paul&quot;, which I misheard as &quot;B as in Ball&quot;.

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  @ChickenSaysBak · 11 months ago

  I work in tech support and someone said to me &quot;T as in Tea&quot; and I almost lost it lol

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  @johnbeauvais3159 · 11 months ago

  In high school I was part of an aviation program, we were all familiar with the alphabet because we were also flying, one of the students ordered pizza over the phone and was reciting the address for the school at pretty good speed like “215 Tango Romeo Oscar Juliett” and the pizza guy says “You’re ordering a pizza not calling in an airstrike I’m gonna need you to slow down a bit” and it absolutely sent us

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  @casscheper7541 · 11 months ago

  Foxtrot india romeo sierra tango

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  @muhammadnaufalfalah · 9 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&amp;t=1005">16:45</a> funfact: Indonesian (as well as Malaysian, Singaporean, and Bruneian) are using London instead of Lima for L, since lima means five

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  @georgelloydgonzalez · 11 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&amp;t=1355">22:35</a> I&apos;m gonna start saying &quot;You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time&quot; instead of &quot;shut up&quot; from now on

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  @dr-kethrai · 11 months ago

  Funny note about Delta (the letter and the airline) -- until recently the Atlanta airport train system would announce terminals using the NATO alphabet (like &quot;the next stop is for T gates, T as in Tango&quot;) EXCEPT for terminal D, which was said as &quot;David.&quot;<br><br>Atlanta is Delta Airlines&apos; biggest hub, and they didn&apos;t want to confuse people into thinking this was the terminal for all Delta flights.

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  @PixelPumpkin · 11 months ago

  I used to say &quot;unicorn&quot; instead of &quot;uniform&quot; as a joke, then one day accidentally used &quot;unicorn&quot; on the radio with the coast guard during a marine rescue operation.

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