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16 September 2013

Love it when the person who is dictating what I am transcribing says things like "I spoke to Tsefpsnevwal Smith. That would be S-m-i-t-h."
Happens all the time...

post by: serena at: 12:04 | 6 comments

That made me giggle.

posted by occhiblu 16 September | 14:15

That's great. I do that all the time. My last name is a garble of consonants, so sometimes when I introduce myself to someone they ask how my name is spelled and I say "Capital S, a, m."

posted by Hugh Janus 16 September | 14:28

Too funny. But you have your revenge, right? I visualize your work product -- "I spoke to [incomprehensible] Smith. That would be S-m-i-t-h."

posted by bearwife 16 September | 14:47

Ha!

posted by chewatadistance 16 September | 19:04

My mom was a medical transcriptionist for a while.

Oh the stories she has of spellings.

posted by The Whelk 16 September | 23:43

(OH, and the SO has a last name that, combined with his accent, is very easy to mishear, so he always spells it out in NATO phonetic alphabet when giving it over the phone, which sometimes just makes it worse ( A AS IN ALPHA C AS IN CHARLIE - what? MY NAME - FOXTROT, INDIA....)

posted by The Whelk 16 September | 23:45

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