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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Phone Test Solution Manual
Message-ID: <12674@lanl.gov>
Date: 26 Apr 89 01:26:20 GMT
References: <4700034@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <4700034@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
> Lower case letters are pronounced normally.  (except n which is pronounced
> neh to make m-n more distinct.)
> 
> Upper case are pronounced as follows:
> 
> A--yay   B--bah   C--saw  D--daw  E--yee  F--ahf  G--jaw   H--awtch
> [...]

Why not use the FAA radio names for the letters: alpha, bravo, charlie, ...
That way, your not reinventing the wheel (again).

Of course, this still means that you are _spelling_ out your identifiers,
which makes the loose any mnemonic significance they may have had.  Oh well.