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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre Phonetic Alphabet
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 13:03:28 EDT
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From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>

> 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

Strangely enough, I'd given this a bit of thought myself, and I came up
with a few other fairly obvious ones:

P=psyche
G=Gnaw
K=Knight
W=Wrong
X=Xylophone

Yours in bizarreness (mine too)
--Evan Marcus
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