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From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Bizarre Phonetic Alphabet
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 23:18:22 EDT
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From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>

I just discovered this newsgroup, and noticed something
about phonetics.
While on that subject, maybe someone can help me out on
a bizarre phonetic alphabet I once ran into.

You are probably familiar with phonetic alphabets, where a
word is used to represent a letter to eliminate ambigiuity
in pronunciation, especially when the communications
medium is poor.

Thus, the Army uses  Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, something-or-
other, Foxtrot, etc.
(or later it bacecame Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, etc.)
There is an international standard used by
airline pilots and so on.

Anyway, a few years ago
I ran acrosss a bizarre alphabet where all the words
were deliberatley chosen so the pronunciation
was wrong, i.e. the way the first letter sounded was
not the way the word was spelled.
I only remember a few:

A = aisle
B = bdelium (a plant, the "B" is silent)
C = czar
D = Djakarta
T = tsar

Has anyone heard of this, or do you have suggestions?
This certainly seems a valid topic for this newsgroup!

Now watch, someone will tell me it was all discussed here last week!

Mike Ciaraldi
seismo!rochester!ciaraldi