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beowabbit ([personal profile] beowabbit) wrote2012-05-14 01:05 am
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Draft of Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet

OK, thanks for the suggestions, all! Here’s my first draft of the Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet:
ACOCOA
BSUBTLE
CINDICTMENT
DHANDKERCHIEF
EQUEUE
FHALFPENNY (pron. HAY-puh-nee)
GSIGN
HHONOR
IBRUISE
JMARIJUANA
KKNICKERS
LSALMON
MMNEMONIC
NDAMN
OLEOPARD
PPSYCHIATRIST
QLACQUER
RSARSPARILLA
SISLAND
TBALLET
UBUOY BUILDER
VMILNGAVIE (pron. mill-GUY, a town near Glasgow)
WANSWER
XPRIX
YPEPYS
ZRENDEZVOUS
BREAD EARLY, LIMB LAMB, MUSCLE CZAR, WEDNESDAY HANDSOME, MORGUE, HALFPENNY, FOREIGN GNAT GNOSTIC, RHETORIC HEIR HOUR, FASHION, KNEE KNIFE, CAULK, COLUMN LIMN AUTUMN, PNEUMONIA CORPS PTOMAIN(E) PTARMIGAN, RACQUET (maybe KABBALAH, but only if you spell it that way), CORPS, HUSTLE, UILLEANN, WRIST WRAP WRITE WRONG WRY, MONTREUX FAUX XHOSA (in English; in Xhosa it’s a click), PRAYER, CHEZ