• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    Better suggestions for B:

    • Breath: Half the people would say “breathe” instead.
    • Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that’s pronounced
    • Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations
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      19 hours ago

      Bidet is puzzling enough. Then there’s modern portmanteaus like bussy (really, any word that has a more well-known P-word, like blot, will work) and NATO PA soundalikes like bike. And words with stress on other syllables that make the B less distinct, especially evil ones are before and benign for sounding like B4 and B9.

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        19 hours ago

        Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.

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        21 hours ago

        Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.