Sep 2021
11:02am, 7 Sep 2021
2,480 posts
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Fitz
That's a gear-grinder in itself - listening to people on the phone making up their own phonetic alphabet on the hoof...
A for apple B for bacon C for cocaine... ... ect. (Sorry, ETC!)
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Sep 2021
11:22am, 7 Sep 2021
16,080 posts
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MarkyMarkMark (3M)
[I try to use it when dealing with my IT ServiceDesk colleagues. It doesn't always seem to register with some people what you are doing!
Having been on the receiving end of it in the past, I always found "e" (pronounced "eh?") for x-ray is always a good one... ]
People who spell my surname wrong. The only person of note who ever spelled it with an "e" was Frankie Howerd, and he did it just to be different. (I usually say - "Like in the castle. Otherwise no relation." It works around most of North Yorkshire at least!)
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Sep 2021
11:42am, 7 Sep 2021
8,245 posts
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Alice the Camel
Lol @ Fitz
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Sep 2021
12:02pm, 7 Sep 2021
8,245 posts
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The Great Raemondo
K for knife. S for sea.
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Sep 2021
12:10pm, 7 Sep 2021
10,126 posts
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Sigh
[Another colleague a few years back used to explain his name - Rolf Moore - on the phone to people by saying: "Rolf as in Harris, Moore as in Roger" ]
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Sep 2021
12:11pm, 7 Sep 2021
34,166 posts
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LazyDaisy
[I bet he doesn't use the first one anymore 🤣🤣]
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Sep 2021
1:26pm, 7 Sep 2021
7,009 posts
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Surrey Phil
I always use the NATO phonetic alphabet on the phone when talking to professionals or government departments. Without being patronising, the elderly don't pick it up as well and you tend to resort to alternatives.
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Sep 2021
1:42pm, 7 Sep 2021
8,769 posts
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GordonG
you should try having a name where both first and surname could be a first or surname. doesn't help when work emails are Surname.Firstname@... As was said earlier, it's frustrating to sign off an email with 'Regards, [first name]' only to immediately receive a reply 'Dear [surname]'
someone i know called it Bruce Wayne syndrome, which i rather like
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Sep 2021
1:43pm, 7 Sep 2021
8,770 posts
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GordonG
and i used to know a guy with the surname Muffs. That's a corker to explain when making a booking by phone.
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Sep 2021
1:43pm, 7 Sep 2021
6,248 posts
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Metro_Nome
One of our well known senior members of management is called Graeme Gordon. I worked recently with a Gordon Graham, and everybody calls him Graham all the time.
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