{"id":4165,"date":"2009-07-01T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2009-07-01T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:48:00","slug":"spelling-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/spelling-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from dinner with a few friends of mine, among them Anand Ramachandran<\/a> and Salil Tripathi<\/a>. They shared a couple of superb anecdotes that, with their permission, I’m reproducing here. The first is about when Anand’s dad, in the good old days when ISD calls cost a bomb and you had to scream into the phone, was spelling out ‘America’ to a friend.<\/p>\n

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The Friend<\/b>: What did you say? Can you spell it out?<\/p>\n

Anand’s Dad<\/b>: America, da. A for Apple…<\/p>\n

The Friend<\/b>: A for Apple.<\/p>\n

Anand’s Dad<\/b>: M for Mother…<\/p>\n

The Friend<\/b>: What, what? M for what?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At this point, Salil told us a story about how he<\/i> had to spell his name out for somebody.<\/p>\n

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Salil<\/b>: My name is Salil Tripathi.<\/p>\n

Somebody<\/b>: Sorry? How do you spell that?<\/p>\n

Salil<\/b>: Salil. S for Singapore…<\/p>\n

Somebody<\/b>: How do you spell Singapore?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The possibilities are endless, you will note.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Reader Seshagiri Sattiraju writes in:<\/p>\n

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I faced the opposite situation. Someone told me a word on the phone and I tried to spell it out for him<\/p>\n

Me<\/b>: Is it B as in Bombay?<\/p>\n

Other Person<\/b>: Not sure what B stands for…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, it could also stand for Mumbai, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from dinner with a few friends of mine, among them Anand Ramachandran<\/a> and Salil Tripathi<\/a>. They shared a couple of superb anecdotes that, with their permission, I’m reproducing here. The first is about when Anand’s dad, in the good old days when ISD calls cost a bomb and you had to scream into the phone, was spelling out ‘America’ to a friend.<\/p>\n

\n

The Friend<\/b>: What did you say? Can you spell it out?<\/p>\n

Anand’s Dad<\/b>: America, da. A for Apple…<\/p>\n

The Friend<\/b>: A for Apple.<\/p>\n

Anand’s Dad<\/b>: M for Mother…<\/p>\n

The Friend<\/b>: What, what? M for what?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At this point, Salil told us a story about how he<\/i> had to spell his name out for somebody.<\/p>\n

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Salil<\/b>: My name is Salil Tripathi.<\/p>\n

Somebody<\/b>: Sorry? How do you spell that?<\/p>\n

Salil<\/b>: Salil. S for Singapore…<\/p>\n

Somebody<\/b>: How do you spell Singapore?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The possibilities are endless, you will note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nSpelling It Out - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/spelling-it-out\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spelling It Out - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I’m just back from dinner with a few friends of mine, among them Anand Ramachandran and Salil Tripathi. They shared a couple of superb anecdotes that, with their permission, I’m reproducing here. 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