quickly, two early things

[mrissa]

1. My gmail offered me the following headline: Nude teens raise eyebrows. They're teens. They probably roll their eyes and shrug as well, and we don't put that in headlines. Instead we do our best to prune it out of our YA and other teen-protagonist novels.

2. Last night when I was getting markgritter from the airport, the person on the PA called a passenger to "gate G-11, that's G as in Goth, 11." Other boarding areas include "D as in death" and "B as in blackness," one supposes, or else "A as in Angle, C as in Celt," depending on what kind of Goth she meant.

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The "nude teens" showed up on Excite as well -- my first thought, like, paralleled yours.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That might have been "G as in Golf," which is the word I was taught to use when a retired naval captain was drilling the flag code into my head.

Though "Goth" would be funnier.

[ckd]

It probably was "Golf", but "Goth" is far more amusing.

Due to the sheer number of alphanumeric serial numbers I have had to read over the phone in my life, I have become used to using the NATO (and ICAO, etc) standard alphabet. I do generally pronounce "Papa" incorrectly, with the accent on the first syllable instead of the second.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I do generally pronounce "Papa" incorrectly, with the accent on the first syllable instead of the second.

That's not incorrect. I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced with second syllable stress in English. If you happen to be speaking Spanish, it just means you're talking about a potato rather than a father.

[ckd]

ICAO has a specified pronunciation standard for the alphabet (yeah, I hadn't known that either, until recently). That specifies "pahPAH".

(I will probably never manage to remember that when I'm actually using it.)

I also rarely say "niner".

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Ah. I thought you were going the other direction with that: pronouncing it wrong in reality due to ICAO, rather than the other way around.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She enunciated rather clearly, so if she meant "Golf," she had a speech difficulty of some sort.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

"G as in Goth" has turned up more than once on the phone to US Air - their website is frequently broken, so I order tickets on the phone, and a successful order ends with a six-letter confirmation code. The phone clerks seem to have a reasonably standard set of words they use, but it is definitely NOT the usual radio phonetic alphabet.

[brooksmoses]

This morning, suzimoses misread a travel agency sign as "Gothic World Travel".

I think that there should be such an establishment, specializing in tours of Rome.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

"...and after the Goths sacked Rome, you could not get black lace gloves or plum eyeliner in the Western world for five hundred years..."