@nash I think there needs to be a different word for "V." With a Spanish / Latin American accent, the B and the V are very similar for American English ears. With my accent you might actually hear "bowl" instead of "vole."

Possibilities:

Verily
Vitamin
Video
Voluptuous
Volcano
Voice
Veterinarian
Velociraptor
Vivacious
Voicemail

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I would listen to the Fangirl Tummyache Podcast.

@nash 🤔 The only word I know with the phonetic alphabet is my last name, thanks to repeatedly hearing my veteran father do so growing up: "echo tango zulu echo lima".

The CUTIE version: "eggnog tummyache zipper eggnog lemonade". ... 🤣 eggnog lemonade probably would be a reason for a tummy ache; I might have to try it next time I need to spell out my name.

@nash quinoa is the only one I disagree with as it could be mistaken for K.

I would suggest Quest or Quickie

Also I'm gonna start using this at work to annoy my military broworkers.

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I have one issue with this. The idea behind a phoenetic alphabet is it should be intuitive. If someone does not know what quinoa is, they could assume it starts with a K. Another word would be better.

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It’s awesome!
I have to spell four letters of my seven letter last name phonetically every single time I give it out.

I’ve been doing

Z zebra
B boy
N Nancy
Y yellow

Let me see

Z zipper
N naptime?
B boba
Y yarrow - that’s easy. :)

How are our outsourced reps going to do with your list?

I’m sure they have no clue what Nancy means.

@nash whatever happened to...

'ay for 'orses,
Beef or mutton,
See for yourself
Etc. etc. etc

@nash Pure Genius! I see just one poblem: MAGPIE and NAPTIME are to similar and may be missunderstood over bad transmission or in loud environments.

Maybe change Magpie to Marshmellow or something like that.

cheers!

@nash N LIKE NANCY
M LIKE MICHAEL

are what I use normally :)

@nash this all works for me! except eightober- i feel like i'd have no idea what someone was talking about if they said this to me.

what about "figure eight" or something that is more cemented in the current lexicon?

(just coming from a place of having no goddamn clue what the charge nurse is talking about over the radio using plain english and their alleged best speaking voice)

@nash PODCAST!? WTF PROTOGEN.

uuuuugh...

@nash I've heard of a program enabling coding through speech, Talon, which describes a phonetic alphabet with the following property:
every word is a single syllable long.

Here is the default dictionary (it can be reconfigured):
https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/core/keys/letter.talon-list

@nash This could end up with some awkward exchanges.

underwear onesie goblin kisses podcast fangirl

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How about the German phonetic alphabet?

Anton
Ärger
Berta
Cäsar
Charlotte
Dora
Emil
Friedrich
Gustav
Heinrich
Ida
Julius
Kaufmann
Ludwig
Martha
Nordpol
Otto
Ökonom
Paula
Quelle
Richard
Samuel
Schule
Eszett
Theodor
Ulrich
Übermut
Viktor
Wilhelm
Xanthippe
Ypsilon
Zacharias

Null
Eins
Zwo
Drei
Vier
Fünf
Sechs
Sieben
Acht
Neun

Completely and utterly non military.

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ARTICUNO
JINX
NIDORINO
BEEDRILL
HAUNTER
CHANSEY
SQUIRTLE