Draft of Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet: beowabbit

Draft of Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet

OK, thanks for the suggestions, all! Here’s my first draft of the Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet:

A	COCOA
B	SUBTLE
C	INDICTMENT
D	HANDKERCHIEF
E	QUEUE
F	HALFPENNY (pron. HAY-puh-nee)
G	SIGN
H	HONOR
I	BRUISE
J	MARIJUANA
K	KNICKERS
L	SALMON
M	MNEMONIC
N	DAMN
O	LEOPARD
P	PSYCHIATRIST
Q	LACQUER
R	SARSPARILLA
S	ISLAND
T	BALLET
U	~~BUOY~~ BUILDER
V	MILNGAVIE (pron. mill-GUY, a town near Glasgow)
W	ANSWER
X	PRIX
Y	PEPYS
Z	RENDEZVOUS

[some other possibilities] 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

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