A Scots mum left her daughter crying with laughter after making up her own phonetic alphabet, with O for Onion and N for Niagara Falls.
Demi Cuthbertson, from South Lanarkshire, filmed her mum on the phone trying to spell out her surname while choosing random words.
The 21-year-old asked 'does anyone else's mum make up their own phonetic alphabet' as she tried to contain her laughter while listening to the phone call.
Sitting in the living room, her mum hilariously confuses the man on the other end of the phone as she says: "E for elephant, R for Roger, T for Tommy".
Demi can be heard stifling her laughter as her mum repeats: "T for Tommy... T for tangerine."
The man on the other end of the phone can be heard correcting her and says: "T for tango."
Her mum continues picking random words and further confusing the conversation as she says: "S for sugar.... sugar. O for onion. Onion!"
"And N for... Niagara Falls," she says while Demi holds back tears as she tries not to burst out laughing.
Her mum repeats: "Niagara Falls... in Canada."
She begins to mime the waterfall with her hands as she says: "Aye, Niagara Falls in Canada."
The clip was posted on Tik Tok and quickly went viral, racking up 457,000 views and 60,000 likes as users took to the comments to crack jokes.
One wrote: "It's the wee guy saying 'T for tango".
Another commented: "Why do our mums do this?! Just say the letter"
"O for onion I'm HOWLING," a third wrote.
Another penned: "My mum once said D for donner and T for tikka. I nearly died."
"This is so funny I can't breathe," one person commented.
Phonetic alphabets are used in order to avoid miscommunication issues, including when using an accent.
