W for why and Y for you is delightful
posted before, but this is still my go-to:
P pneumonia G gnu K knees
I used to do this all the time when I worked at a call center.
I always pronounce the G in gnu
In the software, the official position is that the G in GNU is pronounced. But for the animal known as a gnu, the g isn’t pronounced.
animal? what, is there an animal called gnu? that’s news to me
Have you seen the GNU logo?
Ever since Lion King came out the “wildebeest” name has been much more common.
But the most commonly used logo for the GNU software is an anthropomorphized gnu.
Reading this made my left eye twitch. Good job.
At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked
That’s the exact train of thought I went through!
- E: Ewe
- H: Hugh
- U: Uyghur
- Y: Yew
bloonk brain fell out error
Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.Pictures painted by written text that you can hear.
Aisle Bail Coil Deal Eel Feel Grill Hill Ill Jail Kill Lay Mill Nil Oil Pill Quill Real Seal Till Until Veal Will Xylophone Yell Zeal
would work so much better.
NCD is leaking again. Someone get the 100mph tape.
Newyork City Disease?
Newjersey Colonial Dysmorphia
No Cope Dadio
Better suggestions for B:
- Breath: Half the people would say “breathe” instead.
- Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that’s pronounced
- Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations
“B as in bdellium.” Or, “B as in subtle”.
Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.
“B as in subtle”
A silent B? Dumb.
I always thought it was “G for Gnome” - huh, never too late to learn.
X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.
And neither is a phonetic alphabet. They’re spelling alphabets. But that doesn’t sound as cool
Whoever sells this as the “NATO Alphabet” needs to be taken outside and shot.
You can think of military what you like, but the real NATO alphabet is a phonetic masterpiece. RobWords has an interesting video about it on YT.
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.
I was sure the peace symbol was from combining the letters K + G from “kg of weed makes people peaceful”.
