The WORST phonetic alphabet
David Stockton
Subject line says it all.
For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
Words like Aesop, Gnomon, Psyche, Cycle, Floccinaucinihilipilification,
Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
(I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
Cheers
David GM4ZNX
Peter Reed
: Subject line says it all.
: Cheers
: David GM4ZNX
Once had some problems with a guy in CE who alternately used
"Zulu" and "Xylaphone" to represent the "Z" in his callsign!
73, Peter G4BVH
Anthony R. Gold
dst...@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com "David Stockton" writes:
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
Gnaw
Mnemonic
Pneumatic
Psoriasis
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Walt Davidson
>> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
A- Although B- Bough C- Cough D- Dough (or Doughty) F - Fought
G- Gough H - Houghton (West) L- Lough N- Nought O - Ought
P - Plough R - Rough S- Slough T- Trough (or Tough or Though)
U - Ugh W- Wrought Y - Youghall E - Enough!
73 de Gabble 3 Nabble Yabble Yabble
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John Boyer
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Richard Sterry
>
> Subject line says it all.
>
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
>
> Words like Aesop, Gnomon, Psyche, Cycle, Floccinaucinihilipilification,
> Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
>
> (I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
>
>
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
>
>
> Cheers
> David GM4ZNX
I like the old joke about the Irish terrorist, (no offence, those of you
in /GI and /EI), who was trying to tell an arms dealer, over a very
noisy phone line, that he wanted "GUNS". The dealer couldn't tell if the
guy wanted "BUNS", "TONS", or whatever. So, the dealer asks him to spell
the word, and here's what the terrorist said...
" 'G' for Jeans 'U' for Onions 'N' for Knickers 'S' for Cement "
Mind you, having seen the level of literacy on packet radio, I don't
think that joke is exaggerted enough to be funny!
73
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Stephen John Farthing
sketch about a US Army platoon in Viet Nam who were under the influence of
dope. The sketch consisted of a QSO between the OP at said platoon and
the OP at HQ who had the callsign John Fox Dog. The punch line was "If you are
that weird come on over." It was quite funny at the time.
To get back to the point:
A Again B Break S Say (or Sexist) O Over T Transubstantiation
D Deoxyribosenucleic E Eeeek F Sixteen (as in Hexadecimal 16) G - any G
callsign ( but watch out for recursion) M Mumble W What H Howdy-doody
X Xerox
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Malcolm Appleby G3ZNU
<dst...@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com> writes
>
> Subject line says it all.
>
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
>
So have you not all heard this one:
A - arear
B - beer
C - cheer
D - deer
E - ear
F - fear
G - gear
H - hear
I - idea
J - jeer
K - keyer
L - leer
M - mere
N - near
O - oesophagus
P - peer
Q - queer
R - rear
S - seer
T - tear
U - urea
V - veer
W - weir
X - xylophone (!)
Y - year
z - zaire
Any improvements?
73
Malcolm
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Mike Chaloner
F fire (where?!) G gerry H haut-cuisine ....
also..
M mayday
P polymorphonuclearleucrocyte or maybe Phantom
etc..
David McEachran
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>
> Subject line says it all.
>
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
>
> Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
>
> (I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
>
>
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
>
>
> Cheers
> David GM4ZNX
>
>
Regards
David McEachran, G6CXA
Lowe Electronics, Bristol
G0THT @ GB7IMB
David Stockton
: also..
: M mayday
Now THAT has to be in the worst alphabet.
P for Panpanpan to go with it?
Cheers
David
Richard Herring
: >In article <DMEEs...@hpqmoea.sqf.hp.com>
: > dst...@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com "David Stockton" writes:
: >> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
: 73 de Gabble 3 Nabble Yabble Yabble
Try some combination of:
Able, Babel, Cable, Fable, Gable, Label, Mabel, Sable, Table,
Beer, Dear, Ear, Fear, Gear, Hear, Jeer, Leer, Mere, Near, Peer,
Queer, Rear, Sear, Tear, Veer, Weir, Year
and a few others. I think this one appeared in SWM many years ago.
--
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GEC-Marconi Research Centre | Not the one on TV.
John Morris
>
> Subject line says it all.
>
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
>
> Words like Aesop, Gnomon, Psyche, Cycle, Floccinaucinihilipilification,
> Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
>
> (I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
>
>
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
>
>
> Cheers
> David GM4ZNX
>
(Some have these have already appeared in the thread...)
Aye
Bee
Cue
Double-u
Ell
Four
Gibe
Hour
Iambic
Jay
Knot
Lye
Mnemonic
Nine
Owe
Pea
Quay
Repeat
See
Tea
Urn
Veldt
Write
Xenon
You
Zero
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John Morris However, I still think that both points are worth
Jo...@kirsta.demon.co.uk making. The fact that they are contradictory is
GM4ANB@GB7EDN.#77.GBR.EU ludicrous, but still irrelevant.
- Greg Goss
Phil Rose
>.. D Deoxyribosenucleic E Eeeek F Sixteen (as in Hexadecimal 16) G - any G
^^^^^^^
Pity it's Fifteen
49 de G3ZZA
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P.V....@UK03.wins.icl.co.uk
G3ZZA
Colin Edwards
A for mentioned
B for the mast
D for ential
E for 'er
F for vescent
G for Gosh sake Batman
I for the engine
K for teria
J for Oranges
L for Leather
O for a day at Blackpool
P for a penny
Q for everything
R for Daley
enough already............
I know only E,G,L & P really work.
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Colin Edwards
Andy McMullin
> Subject line says it all.
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
> Words like Aesop, Gnomon, Psyche, Cycle, Floccinaucinihilipilification,
>Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
> (I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
> Cheers
> David GM4ZNX
I can only remember the beginning, but....
A if for 'orses,
Beef or Mutton
C Sea the shining Sea
..
P for a Penny
..
........ I used to know the lot once :-(
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Andy
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Mark Pettigrew
>
> I can only remember the beginning, but....
>
> A if for 'orses,
> Beef or Mutton
> C Sea the shining Sea
> ..
> P for a Penny
> ..
>
> ........ I used to know the lot once :-(
The version I have is
'Ay fer 'orses
Beef or mutton
Seaforth highlanders
Deaf or dumb
'Eave a brick
Effervescence
Chief of police
'Ate yer for it
Eye fer an eye
J fer oranges
Kafe fer a cuppa
'Ell fer leather
Emphasis
N fer a penny . . .
Over my dead body
Pee fer a penny
Q fer the flicks
'arf a mo
S fer me
T fer two
Euphemism
Viva la France
Double you for it
Wife or girlfriend?
's 'ead fer 's 'at
But if we want the worst phonetic alphabet, two things spring to mind.
First, how about <in a loud patronising voice, in the way that English
speakers use when talking to foreigners> A, B, C, D . . .
Second, how about simpply changing the alphabet each time a letter is
used, in the apparent hope that at least one version will get through but
with the usual effect that the poor recipient, hoping to understand on
the second hearing, is totally perplexed. For example:
CW 80 [sic] from Golf Zero Whiskey Lima Romeo, George Nought Washington
London Radio, General Nil Winnipeg Lemon Radar and standing by . . .
Mark
G0WLR
"There is at least one elegant solution to any problem" [Harvey Jackins]
Benton StJ Bonney
K is for Khadafi
Q is for Quadafi
B is for Bejing
P is for Peking
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> Subject line says it all.
>
> For a bit of fun, let's create the world's *worst* phonetic alphabet!
>
> Words like Aesop, Gnomon, Psyche, Cycle, Floccinaucinihilipilification,
> Hay, Repeat, Not, Knot, Aye come to my warped and shrivelled mind.
>
> (I'm particularly proud of R-for-Repeat)
>
>
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
>
>
> Cheers
> David GM4ZNX
z as in zed
I as in Eye of the tiger
Y as in why do i need this part
x as in Ex wife
Ian Jackson
writes
>
>Used quite often by French stations; 'xylophone' always struck me as an
>odd phonetic.
>
I recall that around 1960, the RSGB Bulletin humorously suggested an
alternative set of phonetics. X was Xanthippe.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xantippe
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Brian Morrison
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> Y as in why do i need this part
called that because it was done using the "Y-ur-less".
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Brian Morrison
Spike
> In WWII the Y service that intercepted Enigma radio signals for BP was
> called that because it was done using the "Y-ur-less".
in his book 'Between Silk and Cyanide" (highly recommended).
It was during the period when Marks was concerned about the Dutch
networks, but at this point he only had suspicions. One day, his boss
was away, and Marks took the opportunity of an excuse to visit his
office to have a look through the files that were on his desk.
Selecting a nondescript grey folder with no markings, on the basis
that 'all that glisters is not gold', Marks was astonished to find a
report in it that detailed the movements of the Dutch SOE wirelesses
from DF reports issued by an organisation of which he knew nothing.
Gentle questioning of two ladies that had worked for his boss pre-war
merely confirmed his suspicions that there was a lot more than he was
aware of, as they gently deflected his enquiries.
Just to follow this up, Marks was called by the Head of Finance to
give him a briefing about Marks' department, which brought the Dutch
problem to the fore when the HoF asked the innocent question "Do we
get many indecipherable messages?' (a topic that Marks was highly
concerned about, as it meant a WOP had to go on the air again to
resend the message). "Yes" replied Marks "We get indecipherables from
the Danes, French, Belgians, Norwegians....Oh! Would you excuse me
sir?".
He'd tumbled to the non-obvious fact that only the Dutch had never
sent an indecipherable message, and he knew from his training of the
wireless ops exactly what each was capable of. The Germans had
captured a wireless operator, and used this to arrange more
air-drops...capturing in the end some 50 people. The actual people
were doing the sending, as could be told from their individual
'fists', but the suspicion was that the Germans were doing the
coding.
The Germans called it 'The Englandspiel' (English game), and it ran
for some time...
Amazing what can be done with a 5W CW transmitter and concealed
aerials!
--
Spike
Brian
began:
A for horses
B for mutton
C for thighlanders
The last in particular took quite a lot of explaining to anyone "of a
younger generation".
I had the whole thing written down somewhere, but (predictably) cannot
now find it.
Brian
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I'm Old Gregg
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A for 'orses
B for Mutton
C for Miles
D for dentures
E for ning standard
F for vessance
G for police
H for consent
I for Novello
J for oranges
K for teria
L for leather
M for sis
N for lope
O for the wings of a Dove
P for ming Seals
Q for snooker
R for mo
S for midable
T for Two
U for mizzam
V for la France
W for quits
X for breakfast
Y for mistress
Z for breezes
They don't all makes sense to my, but who am I.
© One of those Schott's Books
Jon