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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre Phonetic Alphabet
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 16:33:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 16:33:20 1985
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In article <12185@rochester.UUCP> ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP writes:
>While on that subject, maybe someone can help me out on
>a bizarre phonetic alphabet I once ran into.
>I only remember a few:
>A = aisle
>B = bdelium (a plant, the "B" is silent)
>C = czar
>D = Djakarta
>T = tsar
 I can add my favorites (guaranteed to make the strings start
in the wrong place during orchestra rehearsal!) :
M = mnemonic
P = Pterodactyl
X = xylophone (or is this one two easy?)
>Now watch, someone will tell me it was all discussed here last week!

Dunno about that, but I know for sure it was disscussed next week.



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