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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Suggs. for Phonetic Alphabet
Message-ID: <5678@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 15:14:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 15:14:54 1985
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In article <717@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) writes:
>> From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>
>> I ran across 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
There's also:
	A as in aye
	C as in cthonian or ctenophore
	G as in gnosis or gnostic
	H as in honor
	K as in knight
	M as in mnemonic
	N as in nth
	O as in oedipal
	P as in pneumatic or psychology

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