Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.
I bet they manufacture AI-enabled vibrators
“At Q-cumber, we bring the innovation and synergy of AI into the bedroom, to maximalize your pleasure in the bed, either with a close partner or not.”
Which entitles Benedikt Cumberbatch to an unencumbered cucumber cumberbund.
A tech startup in the Bond universe.
Cucumber is a testing framework (more or less). So I could see it as some company doing consulting. https://cucumber.io/
Pretty sure there was once a chain of salad bar type restaurants named QCumber
P as in Phoebe
H as in Hoebe
O as in Oebe
E as in EbeM as in Mancy
I have a had time not saying that when having to clarify what letter
Mas in Mancy!The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.
P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
You’re missing a few good ones.
A for An
C for Cay
I for In
K for Knight
N as in No (a few of these work with “as in” but not with “for”)
O as in Other
P as in Pose
Q for Qing (since Jalapeño is allowed)
T for The
X as in Xi Jinping
T as in tsunami.
P as in phone.
K as in knife or knee.
G as in gnostic.
X as in xylophone.
D as in djembe.
M as mnemonic.
O as in opossum in certain locales.
G for Gnu
TIL English doesn’t pronounce the G in gnu. Wild language.
G as in gnome.
Dang your comment wasn’t there but by the time I copied the link from YouTube you beat me to it.
Great minds think alike.
“is that your first or last name”
Yes it is
My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, “Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django”.
Sounds a little… unchained
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
Bingo Bango Bongo
Day made thank you.
“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”
There’s a World’s Worst Alphabet Book that has those.
I personally like the words that sound like other letters: A as in Aye, E as in Eye, S as in See.
I think the E word in that book is Eye lol.
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
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.
The way that my impulsive brain SCREAMS at me to say swear words when I’m doing it… I’d never say like the N word but I just want to say B for Bitch sometimes, y’know? A as in asshole.
My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said “B, as in Alabama”
Q for queue
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
A for Aardvark
G as in gnosis.
A for Avada Kedavera
You got me there 💀
I’m all about that NATO phonetic alphabet - which for some reason rubs certain people answering phones the wrong way.
Can’t say I don’t have a couple substitutions, though (Zebra instead of Zulu, Sam instead of Sierra, Frank instead of Foxtrot), but it’s not like I’m working the radio of an aircraft or something.
The NATO phonetic alphabet does make some intersting choices. Sierra being particularly bad because over a poor quality radio it can sound a lot like “zero.” the WWII American phonetic alphabet used “sugar.” Able Baker indeed.
Sam and Frank are quite similar
Unrecognisable letter - a - m or n, very similar - unrecognisable could be both (say when it’s loud and you’re talking)
Sierra and Foxtrot are very different and that’s what matters
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Bank, Dank, Gank, Hank, Jank, Lank, Rank, Sank, Tank, Wank
Yeah… not great options, those.
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Whoa, Black Betty!
Bramble jam??
Understood, but these were selected based on what seems to work for your average customer service person/office worker. The amount of times I’ve said ‘Sierra’ and got back C is too many.
Might re-think Frank over Foxtrot, though. That’s more habit than anything else.
Agreed in other contexts these are not the best choices, and there’s a reason they are not that in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
I once said Sierra and the guy wrote the letter C, because apparently he might be a physicist, but he was also an idiot
Maybe a fan of singer songwriter Ciara, with her song 1-2 step.
TBH “Sierra” is a pretty obscure word. I didn’t know about it until the Mac OS release with that name. And given how often “c” makes an “s” sound, that sounds like a reasonable mistake to make if you’ve never heard the word before.
gosh I’m old :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment
Ever heard of Sierra Leone?
nope :(
I once had a client tell me, “T as in… T.”
Yeah, that was helpful.
I mean surely it was “T as in Tea”
Or maybe “T as in Tee”
Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.
T as in Tardigrade
Woooosh
Or “T as in Ti”
‘T’ as in “TT Quattro Roadster”
M as in Mancy
You of all people, Ray
We can’t stop saying this to the point that it’s become a problem.
Unfortunately, it’s remained very, very funny.
lol
L as in Lana
A as in Anal
I can remember one time:
“P for Potato”,
“B for… err… i dunno, Botato?”.
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
Boh-tah-toe
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
Bruh… It’s P for “pterodactyl”.
Brotato
