On a 2+ hour call tonight, with the US, Mexico and APAC. We had a last minute presentation that needed to be mailed out and H, a Mexican colleague, was spelling his email address.
Here's what I heard:
H: V, as in vampire, i, l, l, a, c as in shoe, a...
Moderator: Sorry, what was that? After a?
H: C as in vouz
All of us: ??
H: (patiently) as in zoo or zero.
All of us: Oh!
It always fascinates me what people use for their "definition word." Vampire definitely made me do a double take, but I knew it was v and not b.
I'll always remember my dad saying "X, as in Xerox." (say it outloud)
It makes me brainstorm other weird words to use: P, as in phone or M as in Mnemonic.
2 comments:
Ha ha. I'm a fan of math so I enjoyed your last post a lot.
Look at: as to what they use for X , Ha Ha.
http://esl.about.com/od/teachingbeginners/a/ab_6beg.htm
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