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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
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[identity profile] derien.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
In 'buoy' it's the 'u' that's pronounced. At least in Maine. We don't pronounce the 'o'. ;)

[identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
WOW! My wuzzle came up with all of these?

[identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
A few more thoughts - I always like to give words that start with the appropriate letter; so much more helpful. Still have a couple of gaps though :(

A: AITHCH
B: BDELLIUM
C: CUE
D: DOUBLE-YOU
E: ELL
F: FOHN
G: GNAT
H: HOUR
I: ICKS
J:
K: KEW
L:
M: MDOMO
O: OUEF
P: PSALM
Q: QUAY
R:
S: SEE
T: TSUNAMI
U: UM
V: VRAISEMBLANCE
W: WHY
X: XIAN
Y: YIPERITE
Z:
Edited 2012-05-14 11:17 (UTC)
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[personal profile] beowabbit 2012-05-14 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
No; I did a bunch of googling to find these. And of course, “handkerchief”, “salmon”, and “psychiatrist” are canon.
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[personal profile] beowabbit 2012-05-14 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] spwebdesign.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I would think "forecastle" (pronounced [foksl]) has a place on the list. ;)

Maybe Qi [chi]?

[identity profile] likethewatch.livejournal.com 2012-05-16 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
I love the idea of this list, and that you completed it, especially. I'm curious, why is it called a "do-gooder list"?

[identity profile] joyeous.livejournal.com 2012-05-16 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised nobody said "U as in Spuyten Duyvil." It's just so much fun to say. :-)
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[personal profile] beowabbit 2012-05-19 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] beowabbit 2012-05-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
These are quite inspired!
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