• MicrowavedTea
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    4 months ago

    As a non-native speaker I’d have no idea how to pronounce or spell Jig, Oboe, Tare or Yoke

    • YTG123@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Which is exactly why the NATO alphabet is the way it is. NATO is an international organization, and the alphabet is suitable for that.

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.