• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Also that they thought that the phonetic alphabet, created for making it less ambiguous to describe English letters verbally, would decide to use one of the exception cases to the pronunciation of the letter C where it takes on the identical sound to the letter S, to help avoid confusion.

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      I’m sure a lot of people don’t know about the phonetic alphabet and just think I’m coming up with equivalents on the fly.

      I once had an engineer go “G as in, …er… Oh Geee?”, which I suppose worked, sort of.