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posted by [personal profile] erik at 01:37pm on 01/09/2006
(I also once devised an almost complete aplhabet of words that did not sound right:
P, like psychology
M, like mnemonic
T, like tsar
G, like gnostic...)
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posted by [identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com at 04:48pm on 01/09/2006
Yes, it's that *almost* that gets me. I'm still determined to eventually figure out a whole one in order to fullfil Alison Scott's idea of putting together an illustrated Deceptive ABCs for Very Confused Children.
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posted by [personal profile] erik at 04:58pm on 01/09/2006
Yeah; a few of the letters are very difficult. Z, for example, I've never come up with a suitable word for.

Originally, my idea was to use words whose initial sound was similar to a confusable different letter: P as in pthaline. Or did he say "T?"
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posted by [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com at 11:20am on 10/09/2006
For Z, as in "zed"? Wouldn't that be Xylophone? Or is is xerophyte?
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 01/09/2006
Many years ago, I was very confused by the alphabetic variant that provided "B for mutton" and other such verbal wordplays.

(Ah, it's the Cockney Alphabet.)

I quite like "P for Ming Fleas", it's just wonderfully surreal.
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