A phonetic alphabet mostly filled with words which do not make it clear which letter you actually mean, aside from Bravo and Lima which retain their correct values from the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Q should be Qatar, but that breaks the malicious rhyming

    B should be Bayou

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Qatar

    Queue and cue do pair nicely, but that also frees C up to be something like “cent”.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I guess the silently-starts-with-b words just aren’t common enough, and silently-starts-with-l maybe just isn’t out there in English, but I still feel like Llama would’ve been better than Lima for some reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I still feel like Llama would’ve been better than Lima for some reason.

    At the very least because Lima is the real NATO phonetic alphabet callout for "L"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Could have used Line to rhyme with Nine. Rhyming is usually avoided so if you don't hear the first part you still can maybe understand the last part.

    IE if Bat and Rat were both chosen, and you heard "At", you can't tell which it was. But Rat and Bryan sound sufficiently different.

    Could be fun to try to find the most overlap of rhyming, silent letters, and maybe stuff like regional dialectal differences, common mispellings, homophones (some used on this one). Bonus points for unusual or long words (might seem like a mistake or annoying & inefficient to say, respectively).

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago

    if Bat and Rat were both chosen, and you heard "At", you can't tell which it was

    Only problem is that you’re probably saying something like “Bryan, b as in bat, r as in rat” and then even if you put it further along in the word, “ b as in bat, r as in rat” is probably still going to be pronounced distinctly enough to catch that it’s “br” and not “rb”. Something like “rote” would probably be a better word with r since it could easily get confused for “wrote” even with the r sound.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Eye just seems terrible though. Eye and I being homophones.....

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I was stuck at A for the longest time there. I was wondering how in the hell this is supposed to work.

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