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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Suggs. for Phonetic Alphabet
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 12:17:18 EDT
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> 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
> 

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Never heard of it, but here are a few ideas. I'm sure this newsgroup can
come up with the rest...

E = eye
F = Fe (pronounced "iron")



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