How Hard is your Email to Say?

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2021-06-09 23:30:10

You're at the doctors office, talking to an aquaintence, or ordering something on the phone and they ask the question: What's your email? Depending on your name, age, and your life choices this can be a breeze or the dreaded question. How long does it take before you have to break out the phonetic alphabet? How many times do you have to repeat it?

Today we're going to come up with a scoring system to measure how painful your email is to tell someone. It's a golf scoring system with low scores being easy and each point is one unit of struggle for both you and the recipient.

Lets start with the hypothetical perfect example: bob@gmail.com coming in with a score of 0. It's short, contains only a common name, and is on a popular mail host. From there, lets see all the ways yours is harder to say.

If's it's not @gmail.com, @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @icloud.com, or @aol.com take a point. These are services people are familiar with and don't have to think about typing. They just might judge you on which on you use.