After the previous couple of posts I thought I should change the scenario a bit , but for the life of me I have been unable to think of something remotely interesting. I was a bit on the senty side too thinking of the childhood days and days back home 🙂 Yeah i know you going to say here we go again 🙂
When I remembered the first book that majority of us read the one where they teach us alphabets, The A and B and C’s .. how they have all these examples for each alphabet and they are all so simple , examples
A for apple B for Ball C for Cat and so on .. TILL you reach “X” .. and X is for Xylophone ..
Now this caught my attention imagine the first exotic word you get to learn.. Xylophoneeeeeeeeeee 🙂 .. its my favourite
I mean the first think you learn as you are growing up, the most important word you will learn as you are growing up XYLOPHONE..
You are two or three years old learning this .. one of the most important 26 things you will learn Xylophone ..
When you grow up, probably there is a big BIG percentage that you will never be a xylophone player in your life, you will probably never meet a xylophone player in your life. I have never seen one or anyone playing it ever so far .. But here it is X for Xylophone
The only word invented for me to say when I reach X
Then I grew up and became mature (so I think), I am an adult and we are dealing with all these posh words the Alpha’s Bravo’s Charlie’s. Foxtrot, . Oscar and the ever so Exotic Zulu’s ..
Now these words are not taught to us , unless off-course we are in the police force or some other force that needs such words to tell the spellings ..
Now I can understand the reason behind using this Phonics as they are called, Because sometimes it gets difficult to pronounce names or words in the way they are supposed to be , because of different dialect and all ..
Believe me, here in uk with euro opening up, the number of polish or Latvian names that I come across, Which I can’t pronounce at all.
I use to get angry at British not being able it say BIKRAM.. good I did not say its BikramJIT 🙂 ..
Bikram became bikraaaaaaaam.. or bik or B and what not .. but blimey its like climbing the mountain .. giving a name to control to get some info..
I am on the phone trying to give my address to some insurance guy . .post code is P20 — ..
He says what.. B for ..
No I say P.. P for and ohhhhhh at that precise moment my mind goes blank what .. what ..
What is it P for .. hmmm Psychology ..
Oh .. S . 20 the guy says .. and I don’t know which was to look 🙂
Sometimes we also invent new words , which is Funny like if it is B i have usually said B for . BIKRAM 🙂 the guy on the other side is now thinking what the hell did I just say ..or i invent a new word B for Bougart..
or if its N20 – the guy says is that M for money .. NO You Pillock its N for Nougartttt ..
Another funny part is, Well That I have experienced is that usually when we are trying to remember some meaningful word for the alphabet , there is all that FILTH that comes to your mind..
I am sure many will agree to it , although you may deny it 🙂 go on try it .. you forget the words .. do try it , I was asked something and I had to say S something .. the girl asked me is it F for foxtrot
No its S for Sex .. (I said a few more words .. But did not want to put on this blog, I am sure all your minds are probably Getting the RIGHT words ..So ahmm ahmm ).. stop ..
She got upset and shouted Supervisor..
I said YEAH l That’s the one – S for supervisor 🙂
I am mischievous too sometimes and can be funny too if they ask G for ..
I say Gnome…
Try it sometime everyone 🙂
Have a Great day people .. and keep smiling .. for smile and the world smiles with you 🙂
It really was funny Bikraaaaaaaaaaaam 🙂 🙂 🙂 Especially the one with Gnome!
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Thank you so much.. glad you felt that way ……….
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Me first!!!!! Yay!!!! 😀
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yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🙂
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he he he.. yes when i really have to spell my name or something, i generally use the continent or city names to explain.. :)..
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🙂 I know and its such a big problem when at work, I feel offended is they don’t take my name properly so Consciously I have to make sure that I don’t offend anyone else .. and some of the European names are really tricky..
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What is xylophone? As the above commenter says, its safer to expand on alphabets using names of locations. Reading your post, I am reminded of HARI SADU. Are you aware of this naukri.com ad? H for Hitler, A for Arrogant, R for Rascal and I for Idiot!! LOL.
Destination Infinity
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It is a music instrument 🙂 , I also saw it during those kiddy days .. never seen after that ..
and I got to see that Ad he he he .. it seems funny 🙂
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I use name of cities / countries/ oceans/ continents for ease…but what you do is simply hilarious Bikram..need to get ideas from you and use these tricks the next time I am explaining something to someone on phone!
😀
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hmmm now that is a good thing, but a idiot me will forget those too, names of oceans did i tell you I was outstanding in Geography too.. always STANDING – OUT of the class 🙂 he he he
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ask me the power of phonics because that is what my son is learning these days.. and he keeps telling me… mamma if ‘I’ says ‘ee’ then how do we say ‘Icecream.’ it should be ‘eececream’. Imagine my horror.
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The little one is so right 🙂 I need to have a day or two with him for sure he will learn a lot of things beleive me 🙂 all the alpha’s and exotic Zulu .. Oscars 🙂 he he he
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And I have abig grin pasted on my face 😀
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yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy … thank you that the idea Glad you enjoyed
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As my name is not very common,people write in all weird ways at times.Once a doctor changed my name to Kavya :-0
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ohhh I hope you corrected him later.. 🙂
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I had a Xylophone as a kid! 😀
What you have shared for alphabets is absolutely hilarious 😀 P for Psychology … and G for Gnome is the bestest!! What tough time the receivers would have at their end! You can also try E for Euphrates, C for Czar, P for pneumonia (oh, you already have P)… 😀
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you had awww lucky you 🙂 I have not seen it but i knew the word 🙂 🙂 🙂
and that C for Czar is good one and pneumonia why did i not think of that one now …
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:-)…the post certainly brought a smile on my face Mr B for Bikram! …hang on, let me get that right ….is it Bikraaaam! [Bravo, Ink, Kilo, Romeo, Aplha, Mother]
I have done that too….the alphabet I was trying to get across was P and the lady at the other end of phone kept saying right B,right D…..and I kept saying sorry its P, P P as in P for Pig! Another time, I was saying T and the gentleman thought it was D and I said T as in T for T,(the drinking tea I was referring to though I did not mention that!).
Always(Alpha,Lima, Whiskey,Alpha,Yankee,Sierra) Happy(Hotel, Alpha, Papa, Papa, Yankee)
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AH :- yes now its right Bikraaaaaaaaaaam .. you there is a lot of alpha alpha alpha in that one 🙂 he he he he
he he you had a good experience then
and your Phonics are perfect for sure .. 🙂 on the spot lady well done he he he he
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Looks like you have too much fun. Too bad I remember the NATO phonemics by heart. Usually, I know it better than the customer rep. Most times when I rattle out – Sierra-Uniform-November-India-Lima…the guys on the other side says, “Eh? What? Sorry? Can you repeat that please?” But most difficult part is when I am telling my nickname in person, and I have to say “Sunny…like the weather in England?”
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Ha ha ha ha I like that .. indeed Sunny like the weather in England.. But hey for a change it is very sunny today 🙂
believe me I use it day in and day out and stil it is funny , I mostly get confused with M officially it is MIKE but i keep saying MOTHER .. and you can hear the controller give a little chuckle because he knows when i get back.. everyone will take the Mick out of me 🙂 again
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Actually this should be your blog title – B for Bikram! Of course I am expanding on AH’s idea but it sounds like a good idea.
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Reading this post I remember turning my name to Ashley in most of the coffee shops in US as it would be easy for the guy in the counter to mark the glass to be filled with Starbucks frappe and easy for the lady to shout my name when the hot drink is ready to be served. This post was hilarious.
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hmmmmmmm oh ho I guess changing the name made it easier but its funny , if you pronounce the english name wrong they are offended but they do it all the time ..
I remember someone asked me .. whats your name I said Bikram .. he asked any nick name .. I said yes its Bikram .. he got the hint and shut up …
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I always taught “X for X-MAS TREE” to Diya, until one day she came and told me that it is not X-MAS tree but CHRISTMAS TREE!! And , X is for XYLOPHONE!! It just became so exotic!!
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yeah how it was Xmas I dont know .. and yes she is so right Christmas Three 🙂
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Xylophone sounds so good to say, and also it sounds very exotic. Yes we were all taught the same words when we were children. How many times we were told stories about the little Red Engine, and how many times we must have told people who asked us ‘ What do you want to become when you are big?’, Engine driver pat we would reply.
Thanks for taking us down the memory lane, it was fun.
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yeah it does sound exotic for sure .. 🙂 yeah those little stories indeed ..
you are always very welcome , thank you for reading it mam
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I have never seen a xylophone till date…so right you are…the first exotic word in our dictionary…
G for Gnome 😆
English is a funny language to speak and read…and phonetics is a major contributor, b-u-t and p-u-t…how confusing 😀
I have the habit of giving out cities/ countries for the alphabets 🙂
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Neither have i 🙂
english is very very funny indeed , i did a post on it a few months back he he he 🙂
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Well, never had to do this in India. But when I went to the US, every other person would ask me to spell my name and I would go ‘J as in Jam, A as in America and then Y as in You’ . And then there would be a silence at the other end …’Y and U would be probably floating in his head ha ha’ And yeah, xylophone!! Now they say X for Xray too!
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Jaish.. it would be so difficult to do it in our languages he he he Imagine the matra’s and this and that .. but it would be hilarious though ..
Y for you 🙂 he he he or is it U 🙂 now that made me smile and laugh toooo
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Very honestly I learnt X for X-mas as a kid and xylophone joined my vocabulary way later.
You are one cruel soul Bikram for saying P for Psychology to a soul who might be actually struggling with English in first place and to add to misery make it G for Gnome 😛
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well I am sure when they take a job at a call centre they are asked if they are good in english , so no i am not being cruel .. 🙂 he he he he
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Good point.
So next time tell them U for Yugoslavia (like my ex used to 😛 ) 😉 😆
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he he he , yeah I will for sure or how about if i have to say Y.. I say Y for YOU… or is it U he he he
or did i mean yougoslavia 🙂 he he hehe
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Very smart 😀 😀
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I do have my moments now and then he he he
Thank you M.E.
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All this comes from speaking a language which is not phonetic–Hindi Sanskrit could give them lessons!
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well we say that but if I have to spell my name in hindi to someone on english we will need Phonetics 🙂 albeit in hindi but how hilarious will it be ..
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lolz.. I sometimes don’t believe you but then I do end up after all have been reading you since quite a time 😛 😀
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why dont you beleive me , I need to call you and spell my name 🙂 he he he he .. I just pick up things from here and there thats all ..not all are mine always
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That was one fun read, Bikraaaaaaaam..!! Am I right? Why can’t you just tell them, Bond style, I am Mann, Bikram Mann (NOW that is a hangover of the Skyfall review I wrote at office today)… I am pretty sure Mann is pronounceable.
Good one.. by the way, FYI, the troll is BACK.. I have just emailed you.
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Glad you enjoyed reading it .. you are very right for sure .. if i use the bond style they will just smirk and move on …
mann is easy but they still say MAN…
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Haha…that was hilarious…I usually try to think of city names or animal names when I try to spell out something, people get the words better that way. But I do agree that whenever anybody asks me to spell out words using associations…I go blank for a few seconds before saying anything 😛
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hmmm I will try that sometimes but because of my work I have to use those specific ones all the time .. 🙂
I go blank many a times 🙂
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I learnt X for X-mas too. No one says X-mas anymore, I guess? Xylophone had a good innings but I am ever so glad to see X-ray replace it. Here’s the deal – Who says EXailophone? Right, no one. Its zylophone. So how does one explain to a kid, ” X says Zeh” :S ! A says aa, B says ba, X says ex. X-ray is spot on!
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Yeah because I dont know how christmas can be X-mas. he he he Xray is easy I guess to understand 🙂 but imagine a child having to learn Xylophone 🙂 compared to a bat or a cat or apple 🙂
he he he and yes how does one explain that X is Zeh or C can C or a K ..
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X for Xylophone 😮 Really?
I am glad I learned X for X-ray. At that age I think that is all I could have remembered. Phew! bach gaye!
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heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy comfy , how you doing , wow good to see you here after a long longgggggggggg time …
yeah bac gaye ji aap.. but what are bugz and buzz going to learn
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Lol! I liked the S and the G parts 🙂
U’d do anything to make your readers smile, eh?
Cheers bruv
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🙂 thank you Rakesh.. well smiling helps
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Xylophone was my first big word too 🙂 I have couple of nostalgic word moments too. I think I must be 7 or 8. My family put me in an english medium convent. Somehow, the alphabets book didn’t have regular c for cat. It had C for city. I used to read it as kity..b cos it was c for cat…:P LOL..M for mango. I read it as man, go. 🙂
I liked the Gnome..want to try it next time…heheh
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🙂 he he he yeah english is very funny .. put is PUT and but it BUT 🙂
do try it for sure
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I think ‘P’ for Pilerk was more fitting choice
for that idiot on the phone but I know what
you mean, it is often like deciphering code
just to relate to someonem on the other end
and unfortunately, like your operator the old
brain cells were extremely lacking 😦 lmao
I like the ‘F’ for Foxtrot and the ‘S’ for Sex bit
and your witty reply after her threatening to call
her Supervisor, that is brilliant 🙂 Nice one, as
those peeps get right on my wick sometimes 😦
Androgoth
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Andro I had some more S for ___ but did not want to scandalise the people who visit me .. wink wink wink .. he he he he I hope you got the hint ..
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Sorry for the dreaded typos Bikram 😦
Androgoth
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Not a problem andro
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Ha ha! Thanks for the early morning laugh! 😀
What an imagination you have, Bikram! Very interesting post.
BTW, we rarely have this problem of things sounding different from the way they’re written [like gnome, etc] in Indian languages. In most Indian languages, what you see is how it’s pronounced….
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You are always welcome mam…
its not just imagination its a lot of things , watching tv helps too 🙂 he he he he
yeah i know, but imagine if we have to explain the alphabets to someone on fone in hindi and spell out a name 🙂
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this is a very random post Bik … I like it but a bit confused to which one to comment 😉
I guess the pronouncing of name is the most interesting one I also come from non English speaking country. I think I can pronounce your name correctly 😉
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hence the title of this blog random thoughts as and when they come 🙂
yayyyyyyyyyy its only the english who have a problem it seems all over the world people can pronounce the names properly
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LOL..Must you make everything funny? hahah I am not complaining. Just aww..And lol on S for supervisor…She must have been so pissed. 🙂
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GLad you enjoyed reading 🙂 she was very angry I guess.. it happens all the filthy words come ot mind 🙂
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LOL love Gnome and Psychology examples 🙂
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IHM :- he he he he Thank you 🙂
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By the way, we were taught X for X-mas tree.
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hmmmm were you, but i still cant understand how did the word X-mas came to be .. and that to for christmas…
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I had a tough time teaching my younger son phonics. And, English is a non-phonetic language, so beta kabhi g is ga, kabhi g is ja, phew!! And, when I was in the US, it was a huge pain spelling my name alphabet by alphabet. So I had to say, r as in rat, a as in australia… And most of them would call me raykna :(. Hindi is so much better na. Chalo a nice fun post. Good to see that. And btw you forgot something. Do you know what? :).
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What did I forget.. what did I forget.. tell tell tell.. ‘ oh no what ..
Gosh I need to go and check.. please tell me it was not a chance to eat some lovely food ..
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Clue is 2nd November! I remember 11th Nov, btw :).
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YEah now i know.. BAD me ..
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🙂 english is definitely like that, he he he G as Ga and G is JA , I like that .. tell me about it , I still find it confusing that is put is PUT then by is but – BUT – you know what i mean he he he
its hard to describe in english the pronunciations
Raykna.. thats so wrong .. I would have taken an exception I tell you .. 🙂
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that was a super fun post to read!! my name gets misprounounced a lot, so i stick with the ‘princess’ thing!
without crossing the seas, u can find the funnier versions down south too….and with the heavy accents u bet it can be hilarious!! As my friend Vasu would say, I have finished my Yem Bee Yae and am going to Dubai to stay with my ungle and aandy ‘simbly’ to yearn meney…
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Welcome ot this blog and thank you for visiting … do keep visiting 🙂
Thank you so much for reading it , and princess is a good name tooo and seldom can it be pronounced wrong 🙂
Yeah I had a maths teacher Mr. Britoo in school and it use to be so funny when he would teach yeX + yeY and so on .. but saying that he was such a good human being …
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Gnoma..hahahahaha
I am so going to do that !! 😀
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yesssssssss and then tell me how it went toooo 🙂
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even iin chennai, I find it difficult to order anything on phone, its a herculean task..
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🙂 he he he it is a herculean task for some i tell you
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P for Psychology??? 🙂 Loved it Biks.
Xylophone came only in my alphabets book, never heard/seen of it later on.
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Same her as I wrote , never heard it playing tooo .. 🙂
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Phonics? Or did u mean phonetics?? 🙂
P for Psychology??? U got nothing else to say with ‘P’ ? 🙄 God!!
Hahah I face the same trouble in all my life while getting people to understand my name right (except in Kerala coz that’s the origin of my name and it’s common there). Ms Ashwathy becomes MR AWASTHI !! And I m like, 😐 Not only did they change my name but also my gender in the process!! 😛 😛
To a lot of ppl I spell my name as Ashwati …for some reason ppl find it easier to grasp my name pronounciation from this spelling. Go figure!
Ya ya S for supervisor bhi chalega…. ROFL!!! 😆
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hmmmm See the idea is for people to understand.. phonic or phonetics , You undersood na .. JOB DONE 🙂 he he he he he
well I got a Phylosophy tooo for P 🙂 and Phoenix toooo 🙂 he he he he
Now now that would be weird if they are expecting a Mr. Awasthi to come and in walks Ms. Ashwathy.. 🙂
hey i wanted to tell you i found anothr blogger with the same name as yours, at first i thouhgt it was you and I replied to her comment as I would to you.. but then i found it was someone else 🙂 glad i did not say anything silly , she might have taken offense and not understood that its a joke 🙂
ab supervisor challana pada 🙂 he he he
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LOL!!! Oh yea there are one or two more Ashwathi’s around but the spelling differs a bit from mine I think! Either you by heart my spelling 😛 Or just whether my blog URL is linked to it 😛 😀 Just to be on the safe side!!
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yeah I shall keep that in mind .. you never know who might take offence to something i say
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LOL! 😛
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LOL ! that was a nice post ….It made me smile …but believe me when I teach my son phonetics or my daughter alphabets its far from funny ! I feel miserable !!!
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Thank TTT 🙂 glad you had a smile.. its always goood to smileeeeeeee 🙂
send them to me I can teach them some lovely words beleive me .. you might KILL me after that though he he hehe
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Tell me about it…taking dictations for my nephews is like marching across the Gobi desert and that too with no shoes!!!!!
They no longer teach ABCs, they teach phonetics. for them, Go is Go, and Do is also Do’h’. The consonants are killers. It is not a simple Bee anymore, it has to be, “beeee” = bee!
Because of this, they find it tough to differentiate between K and C because they sound exactly the same.
Just a few days ago, they had to write 5 rhyming words for “star”….. the only rhyming word that I could think of was “BAR” 😀 … LOL… in fact, my lil nephew came up with that word…. because he will one day be using it… you know boys will be boys syndrome 😛
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🙂 ooh that would really hurt I tell you, in the middle of the afternoon when sun is at its harshest 🙂
now i am confused tooo about beee = bee 🙂
Kut = CUT 🙂 ha ha ha ha
Now that made me laugh BAR 🙂 oh yeah now that is my kind of word for sure he he he he 🙂 yes mam I know the boys syndrome I am Living it he he he
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Sir I am delighted !
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THank you so much 🙂
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Really funny 🙂 I always use country names when I need to spell out the alphabets 🙂
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I guess they are the safest but I was so bad in geography tooo 🙂
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Agree on the Xylophone thing. 🙂 And true that alphabets get funny sometimes. What would say Y for ?
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Y for you.. or u for Yugoslavia …
He he he
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LOL—- the supervisor one was funny. I had a xylophone toy and it had a stick too. when you roll it over the xylophone it used to make a nice sound.
Your meniton on phonetics reminded me. My children learnt through phonetics. once i asked my son ( he was 3 at that time)to spell keyboard and he spelt cbrd. (in phonetics ka sound is C)
This post must be sending many on a nostalgia lane.
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🙂 Thank you.
You had it as a TOYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyy wow, I know another one then yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I like those spelling Cbrd – short and cute .. why waste time to spell the whole word he he he he
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It is sometimes really irritating to convey these messages through the phone.
By the way I learned these Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Jackal, Kilo, Lima, …. when I was in the NCC. (I stopped at Lima because I forgot the rest)
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Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Roger Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Zulu 🙂
There you go now you have the full exotic phonetic list 🙂
I was in ncc too, air wing.. 🙂
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Paaji .. A if for ABNM also … yaad hai
aetro beatro neatro meatro
Ki haal chal ne Mann Sahib…
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Paaji offcourse How can I forget that NOW .. yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
haal chall yaaraa First class ne ..
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Frankly,honestly,I dint know about this.
It’s really funny
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🙂 he he he not a problem Chowla sir
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Hahaha that was funny!
It was X for X-ray when I was small, but for Namnam, yes it was xylophone :P.
I really enjoyed re-learning the phonetics when doing my Travel n Tourism course. I particularly loved saying ‘Foxtrot’! 😀
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Thank you Deeps and good to see you hear.. as such you come and then disappear for months he he he
ooh namnam is learning the exotic words then lucky she 🙂
yeah FOXTROT another posh word he he he
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Hahahahaha! I learnt X for X-mas tree 😛 😛
Say ‘S’ for ‘Swaram’ next time, okay? 😉
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Right YES.. S for swaram.. tonight on my shift I shall use this and lets see what the control have ot say about it 🙂 he he he he
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Quite different one…and an indeed post
Same thing happens with me many times… 😀
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Thank you and welcome here ..
glad you enjoyed reading this one
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Hilarious indeed, X = Xray in my world, I must admit, you do bring some interesting discussion to the table.
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Thank you sir ji, Glad you enjoyed reading it
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nice ..I enjoyed reading .,.. all these alphabets will come across ur wicked mind..:) as for X ..its x-mas tree..
for us bholi kudiyaa its as simple as “now I know my abc next time wont you sing wid me”
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awwwwwwwwwww yes so gooood of you .. I shall indeed sing it with you for sure 🙂 he he heh e
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Just thought I’d let you know – the day I read this post, DD told me that she played the Xylophone during music practice. There, now you know one xylophone player 🙂
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Yayyyyyyyyy yes now I know one . It was a good think I wrote the post..
Thank you thank you thank you.. god bless DD.
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Glad I found your blog, very interesting post, will keep coming back for more…rab tohanu chadhhdiyaan kalavan ch rakhe!
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WElcome here to this blog, thank you so much for finding it 🙂 yes please do keep visiting
Thank you for the wishes .. aap ji nu V rab Chadhdiyaan kalaan cha rakhe ..
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X for Xylophone. Y for – Yardstick? I wonder what would happen if alphabet books used words from this post. 😛 Awesomely funny post, Bikram! 😀
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Hey Debs , How you doing Long time no see 🙂
if that happened it will become Funny i suppose he he he he
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I can’t pronounce that word properly, X for….I think we should change it now, simpler day to day words. BTW, European names are hard to pronounce…
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Yes Saru lets change it all 🙂 I like Z for Zulu 🙂 and X for Xray is easy peasy
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G for Gnome!? Hahahahahahhahaha
Super funny this post is!
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Thank you so much 🙂 glad you had a laugh reading it he he hehe
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Those first letters and pictures stay fresh in our memory.
I rarely had to spell out names over phone, and for me it will be a really tough task. English is such a confusing lang.
Really funny, Bikram!
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Yes they are 🙂 english is very very confusing for sure ..
Thanks you so much Bindu.
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Ha ha. Nice post. INteresting perspective I say.
English language is full of exceptions, the people who founded the language made sure they did all this (spellings and pronunciations being different) just to confuse all of us and make our life miserable..oh wait..make our life enjoyable 😀
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YEs it is indeed.. i think os too, they sat down and said now lets have some fun with the people using it 🙂
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wowie! this was such fun to read!
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Thank you so much .. glad you enjoyed reading the post
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Hahah! Super cool post. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s crazy how those words come to mind first. 😉 You’re so right, Bikraaaaam 🙂
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Thank you so muchhhhhh.. Mind is funny and i bet it does deliberately and pushes those words in our mouth he he he
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I blogged about pronunciation recently too. It’s a tricky business.
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English is a very funny language for sure
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कल 16/11/2012 को आपकी यह बेहतरीन पोस्ट http://nayi-purani-halchal.blogspot.in पर लिंक की जा रही हैं.आपके सुझावों का स्वागत है .
धन्यवाद!
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Thank you so much for that .. will have a look. and me giving idea’s well I am not that clever 🙂
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Ha …Ha gave me the much needed laughs this Thursday morning 🙂 love English …but more in love with “Hinglish” …btw do you know how our gulti bro spelled “Coffee” . He spelled it as “K-AUGH-EY” K as in kite , AUGH as in caugh and EY as in Key …and he was perfectly right 🙂
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yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.. Glad you enjoyed it all. and now that is a good speling for coffee I might use it myself he he he
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Gnome lol ..
my 2.5 yrs old niece this Diwali recited the alphabets ..and by th time she reached X she said .. in that cute, hard to understand pronunciation daaylopphone … which later i understood what she meant was xylophone .. 😛
once i had to spell on phone name of a particular place .. it was S and after so many tries i said shut up and finally the lady understood what i was saying 😀
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did she he he he 🙂 god bless the little one ..
he he he I like that S for shutup yesssssssssss
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