Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Bizarre Phonetic Alphabet Message-ID: <161000021@uiucdcs> Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 20:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.161000021 Posted: Sat Oct 12 20:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Oct-85 05:03:57 EDT References: <12185@rochester.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:rochester.UUCP:-1218500:uiucdcs:161000021:000:660 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 12 19:06:00 1985 > 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. > > 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! It was all discussed here last week. (I didn't want you to be disappointed.) Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "Given a choice, most people would rather not be attacked by horrid undersea slime creatures." "NO!" "Truth hurts."