contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoA Cool Guide: After I said “E as in egg” to customer service I looked up this guidei.redd.itimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageA Cool Guide: After I said “E as in egg” to customer service I looked up this guidei.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square103fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMicrowavedTea@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAs a non-native speaker I’d have no idea how to pronounce or spell Jig, Oboe, Tare or Yoke
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoJig - take the Ji from Jim and add a “g” Oboe - oh bow Tare - take the “T” from top and the “are” from share. Or more annoyingly, switch the P for T in “pear”. Yoke - same as woke, poke, toke, joke but with a Y as the first sound. It’s also pronounced the same as yolk in most accents.
minus-squareajoebyanyothername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago Oboe - oh bow I worry this isn’t the most helpful guide even for someone who speaks English as a first language, is that bow as in bow, or bow?
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agohttps://youtu.be/WZLkcFns8Ks?si=x6hMrwSCVjWK9Teg
minus-squareYTG123@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWhich is exactly why the NATO alphabet is the way it is. NATO is an international organization, and the alphabet is suitable for that.
As a non-native speaker I’d have no idea how to pronounce or spell Jig, Oboe, Tare or Yoke
Jig - take the Ji from Jim and add a “g”
Oboe - oh bow
Tare - take the “T” from top and the “are” from share. Or more annoyingly, switch the P for T in “pear”.
Yoke - same as woke, poke, toke, joke but with a Y as the first sound. It’s also pronounced the same as yolk in most accents.
I worry this isn’t the most helpful guide even for someone who speaks English as a first language, is that bow as in bow, or bow?
https://youtu.be/WZLkcFns8Ks?si=x6hMrwSCVjWK9Teg
Which is exactly why the NATO alphabet is the way it is. NATO is an international organization, and the alphabet is suitable for that.