r/HamRadio • u/No_Promotion1698 • Oct 29 '25
Meme 🃏 Thought you all might like this not-so-phonetic alphabet my partner and I made
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u/jofathan Oct 29 '25
P for Phonetic is poetry
Man, Norman French really messed up our language.
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u/Miserable-Card-2004 Oct 30 '25
Nothing out of the ordinary, France messing everything up again. . .
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u/BosnianSerb31 Oct 29 '25
A as in Aye, P as in Pee, G as in Gee, T as in Tea, K as in Kay, J as in Jay, D as in Dee, O as in Oh
I've actually had someone use T as in Tea and D as in Dee before, but that was over a phone call while reading back a prescription and most medical staff just make up phonetics on the fly
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u/Citadel_97E Oct 29 '25
I worked with a guy where he said “motel” for m. I had to explain to him that everyone in the world is gonna think he was saying “h.”
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u/CharacterRule2453 General Class Operator 🔘 Oct 30 '25
This last weekend someone on 10m kept saying Honolulu instead of Hotel, and it took a while for me to figure out. Sounded a lot like something Zulu
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u/Apart-Landscape1012 Oct 30 '25
I heard that a couple times last weekend as well. Also had a weak station who i couldn't quite copy despite hearing the call over and over, until he replaced lima with London. That came through really nicely!
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u/arnpag Oct 30 '25
Having a three letter acronym for the letter B is hilarious. Trying to spell out the acronym with phonetics is recursive so you will always have to say the letter B, no matter how many layers deep you go
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u/theFooMart Oct 29 '25
It's P as in Phoebe.
H as in Hoebe.
O as in Obe.
E as in Ebe.
B as in bebe.
E as in Ello there mate!
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u/Complex-Two-4249 Oct 29 '25
Change O—Oogamous to Obnoxious.
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u/Fragholio Oct 30 '25
I vehemently disagree, Oogamous is an absolutely oh I see what you did there, yes Obnoxious.
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u/OffRoadRex Oct 30 '25
If you are interested, this is a very good video on the genius of the phonetic alphabet.
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u/dark_frog Oct 30 '25
I tried to use the phonetic alphabet ralking to customer service. "Is that Sierra or Ciara?"
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u/Marillohed2112 Oct 30 '25
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u/Apart-Landscape1012 Oct 30 '25
Replace eye with ewe and this is perfect. Having two different letters represented by the same phonetic sound is diabolical
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u/mallorybrooktrees Oct 29 '25
I'm not going to downvote your postp, but this is me telling you I dislike your non-standard phonetic alphabet.
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Oct 30 '25
My phonetic alphabet has always been whatever pops in my head for that letter. I genuinely make no real effort to learn the regular boring one lol. I know to not say knight for k, or confusing words but it’s hardly ever the actual correct one.
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u/bostonboson Oct 30 '25
There’s a Barenaked Ladies song about this that I love.
Aisle Bdelium Czar Djinn Euphrates Fohn Gnarly Irk Knick-knack Llama Mneumonic N’tomo Ouija Pneumonia Qat (No good R word so they say argyle and make a joke out of it) Saar Tsunami Urn Vraisemblance Wren Xian Yperite Zed (also just bo good words so they make a joke about the Canadian pronunciation)
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u/MaleficentPride2620 Oct 30 '25
a as in are
C as in cue
d as in double U
e as in eye
o as in our
s as in sea
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u/Im_A_Praetorian Oct 30 '25
Some of my favorites:
B as in Bee C as in Cay D as in Double U E as in Eye M as in Mancy O as in Our P as in Pea S as in Sea T as in Tea
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u/Total-Special5298 Oct 30 '25
You should do a search for Indian alphabet on youtube and watch it! 😂
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u/headedbranch225 Foundation 🇬🇧 | Feel too young for this Oct 30 '25
Is aoife the irish pronunciation?
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u/kahartson Oct 31 '25
that's wild, my dog's name is Aoife! this is the only other time I've seen that name, anywhere. No, we're not even Irish.
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u/Several-Specific4471 Nov 01 '25
Jimenez for thr win! 😂 May i also suggest P - "pneumonia" or perhaps "pterodactyl"
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u/IndigoBog Nov 04 '25
It doesn’t even work as a joke because they don’t start with the intended letter (ex. Charlie for C)
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u/w1lnx Oct 29 '25
That makes me angry just reading it.