Draft of Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet

Beowabbit

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14th-May-2012 01:05 am

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

Tags:language, pmrp, silly

Comments

14th-May-2012 09:58 am (UTC)

derien

In 'buoy' it's the 'u' that's pronounced. At least in Maine. We don't pronounce the 'o'. ;)

14th-May-2012 02:05 pm (UTC)

beowabbit

Oops, you're entirely right! I got that from a not-very-reliable list. (I think I don’t strongly. distinguish the OO sound from the AW sound before Y.) I’ll fix that.

14th-May-2012 11:14 am (UTC)

plumtreeblossom

WOW! My wuzzle came up with all of these?

14th-May-2012 02:02 pm (UTC)

beowabbit

No; I did a bunch of googling to find these. And of course, “handkerchief”, “salmon”, and “psychiatrist” are canon.

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19th-May-2012 02:58 am (UTC)

beowabbit

These are quite inspired!

14th-May-2012 08:31 pm (UTC)

spwebdesign

I would think "forecastle" (pronounced [foksl]) has a place on the list. ;)

Maybe Qi [chi]?

16th-May-2012 03:55 am (UTC)

likethewatch

I love the idea of this list, and that you completed it, especially. I'm curious, why is it called a "do-gooder list"?

19th-May-2012 02:56 am (UTC)

beowabbit

It’s the Do-Gooder Phonetic Alphabet because it’s the spelling alphabet used by Interplanetary Do-Gooders, just as the NATO Phonetic Alphabet is the spelling alphabet used by NATO personnel. L as in “salmon” and P as in “psychiatrist” were used by Red Shift and his trusty sidekick Lumpy when they went to Holowood and saved Jetpack Jones from the Spetacosians (sp?), and D as in “handkerchief” is also attested.

16th-May-2012 09:07 pm (UTC)

joyeous

I'm surprised nobody said "U as in Spuyten Duyvil." It's just so much fun to say. :-)

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