Friday, August 15, 2014

First Accent Run In

Made a lot of calls this morning trying to get Poppy's arrival and delivery booked. I was attempting to give the man on the phone my email address which starts with the very challenging word "the" and here is what happened spelled out phonetically:

"What is your email address?"

"thuh smiths..."

"Sorry, what was it again?"

"thuh smiths..."

"Sorry I'm not understanding."

*Rachael spells it out with the outdated phonetic alphabet...T as in Tom...H as in..."*

"Oh, THEE smiths..I see. Like thee one and only."

"Yes, that is correct."

*Rachael is mortified*

I guess I need to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet for the word "the": Tango, Hotel, Echo

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