Aisle Bail Coil Deal Eel Feel Grill Hill Ill Jail Kill Lay Mill Nil Oil Pill Quill Real Seal Till Until Veal Will Xylophone Yell Zeal
would work so much better.
Alfa
Balfa
Calfa
DalfaP pneumonia G gnu K knees
I used to do this all the time when I worked at a call center.
bloonk brain fell out error
Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.
Didn’t know Englishers skipped the T in tsunami
I read it as choonami which is still not very helpful
Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.
Especially at the start of words, see also e.g. pterodactyl, which from what I’ve gathered native english speakers just pronounce without the p.
W for why and Y for you is delightful
Don’t forget the Double-U for the letter D. It’s an absolute mess.
C for cue and Q for queue! Evil genius.
I always thought it was “G for Gnome” - huh, never too late to learn.
Reading this made my left eye twitch. Good job.
At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked
That’s the exact train of thought I went through!
- E: Ewe
- H: Hugh
- U: Uyghur
- Y: Yew
Whoever sells this as the “NATO Alphabet” needs to be taken outside and shot.
You can think of military what you like, but the real NATO alphabet is a phonetic masterpiece. RobWords has an interesting video about it on YT.
I think the joke here is exactly that some of the words are the worst for this purpose.
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
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.
Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.
“B as in bdellium.” Or, “B as in subtle”.
“B as in subtle”
A silent B? Dumb.
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.
X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.
NCD is leaking again. Someone get the 100mph tape.
Newyork City Disease?
Non-Credible Defense
Newjersey Colonial Dysmorphia
No Cope Dadio
This makes me irrationally angry. Well done!
I made this phonetic alphabet for the information age
information age
How many of these characters predate it by several decades?
Aladddin and Rapunzel definitely, I think those predate Disney.
reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi
