feels foolish that I never remember it
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

one of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn't know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I can imagine the laughs at all the words you might have come up with. "It's at uhh..... Narwhal Sellotape Banana!"

    A reminder though, to anyone who needs it - don't be condescending to others for not knowing things. Everything we know, we had to learn.

    For me, I learnt the phonetic alphabet after getting frustrated one too many times trying to give my postal code and car reg on a bad phone line.

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