Oh Dear, How Are We Suppose To 'keep Up'?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3209587/From-Austerity-Zionist-new-Z-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-imagines-new-phonetic-alphabet-Mail-reader-told-using-phrase-Z-Zulu-DWP.html

/// Mail reader Dave Monk, an ex-copper, recently rang the Department of Work and Pensions with a query. He quoted his reference number, using the phonetic alphabet he had learned as part of his police training. ///

/// But when he got to 'Z for Zulu', the assistant stopped him in his tracks.'We're not allowed to say Zulu any more; it's been changed to Z for Zebra,' she told him. ///

[stuey]

Thanks, divebuddy. It's probably strictly an American term I suppose.

[anotheoldgit]

Ellipsis

/// There's nothing wrong with "Zulu". It's not racist. It's the name of a people, derived from a region of Africa. ///

Try telling that to those who try to describe the natives of this country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

[ichkeria]

Not sure what you mean, but it occurred to me that I had no idea what natives of Niger were called, and it is apparently "Nigeriens"
I never knew that ...

[-Talbot-]

That says 'Niger' AOG...what do you think it says?

You wouldn't go to KFC and ask for chicken nugets would you?

[ichkeria]

"Mae West" was a wartime term. So not used much these days by anyone I'd guess

[anotheoldgit]

Talbot-

/// You wouldn't go to KFC and ask for chicken nugets would you? ///

One wouldn't be called upon to write it down so I suppose they would know what you meant, after all it sounds the same even after leaving out the extra 'G'.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "/// You wouldn't go to KFC and ask for chicken nugets would you? ///

One wouldn't be called upon to write it down so I suppose they would know what you meant, after all it sounds the same even after leaving out the extra 'G'."

It doesn't actually.

Nugget is pronounced Nug-ette, but Nuget would be pronounced Noo-gay.

By the same token, Ni**er is pronounced to rhyme with 'bigger', but Niger is obviously Nye-ger.

I see no confusion there - it seems you do.

[-Talbot-]

No it wouldn't

[-Talbot-]

No it it wouldn't..AOG.

(andy got in the way)

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - "(andy got in the way)"

'scuse me.

[ichkeria]

These days Niger is usually given its French pronunciation (KNEE-ZHAIR)
I can't believe AOG seriously thought it was pronounced NI**ER, or that its citizens might be called ***.
That's even more amazing than discovering that the real word is "Nigeriens" :-)

[delboy3]

I always thought it was "Zebra", as in this 1980 song (listen at 2:28):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxSP98ymw8

[Ellipsis]

"N" is "November", not "Niger" ...