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From: rsa@swindon.gpsemi.com (Richard Sabey)
Subject: Re: Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta: phonetic alphabets (revised)
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:23:07 GMT
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Brian Kelk wrote:
>I'd like the one where the words are spelt with the correct letter but
>are pronounced completely differently, e.g.

>Bdellium [...]

aisle bdellium ctenoid djellaba eider f? gnaw heir iero jojoba know llareta
mnemonic Nzi oestrus psychic qi r? sure tmesis uitlander vlei wry Xhosa
yttric zeitgeist

Donald Fisk contributed some of the above. Some are contentious. Is the A in
"aisle" silent, or is it that the "a" and "i" are both pronounced
collectively as the "i" in "isle" is? If you think the latter, then do you
count that as a "completely different" pronunciation of A? Different from
what? Different from the usual pronunciations? Which are they?

