Article 12110 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton)
Subject: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:09:45 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard LTD, South Queensferry, Scotland
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
Article 12118 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: "Anthony R. Gold"
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 09:42:33 GMT
Organization: Microvest Limited, London
In article
dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com "David Stockton" writes:
> Come on chaps and chapesses, do your worst!
Gnaw
Mnemonic
Pneumatic
Psoriasis
Regards,
--
Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com
tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na
Article 12120 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: walt@servelan.co.uk (Walt Davidson)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 11:44:47 GMT
Organization: home in Tewkesbury
>In article
> dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com "David Stockton" writes:
>> 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
--
Walt Davidson E-mail: walt@servelan.co.uk
100523.1414@compuserve.com
Article 12137 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: richard@waveg.demon.co.uk (Richard Sterry)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:48:00 GMT
In message David Stockton wrote:
>
> 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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Article 12139 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: Stephen John Farthing
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 08:13:52 GMT
Organization: The Ministry of Administrative Affairs
At the 1971 Isle of Wight festival CHEECH and CHONG performed a
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
--
Steve Farthing | stephen@stevef.demon.co.uk |
Melksham RSGB GQRP 7766 BCS 12wpm Morse Test passed. Waiting for my call
Wiltshire UK QRP-L #218 sign
Article 12152 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: Malcolm Appleby G3ZNU
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:24:00 +0000
Organization: Malcolm Appleby
In article , David Stockton
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
--
Malcolm Appleby G3ZNU
Article 12171 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: mikech@hysteria.bri.hp.com (Mike Chaloner)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:11:42 GMT
A again B bye C cheers E eschew (bless you!)
F fire (where?!) G gerry H haut-cuisine ....
also..
M mayday
P polymorphonuclearleucrocyte or maybe Phantom
etc..
Article 12174 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:25:19 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard LTD, South Queensferry, Scotland
Mike Chaloner (mikech@hysteria.bri.hp.com) wrote:
: also..
: M mayday
Now THAT has to be in the worst alphabet.
P for Panpanpan to go with it?
Cheers
David
Article 12175 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: rnh@gmrc.gecm.com (Richard Herring)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: 9 Feb 1996 11:35:30 GMT
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre
Reply-To: richard.herring@gecm.com
Walt Davidson (walt@servelan.co.uk) wrote:
: >In article
: > dstock@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.
--
Richard Herring | richard.herring@gecm.com | Speaking for myself
GEC-Marconi Research Centre | Not the one on TV.
Article 12192 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: John Morris
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 19:18:40 GMT
Organization: the end of the universe
Reply-To: John@kirsta.demon.co.uk
In article
dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com "David Stockton" writes:
>
> 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
--
John Morris However, I still think that both points are worth
John@kirsta.demon.co.uk making. The fact that they are contradictory is
GM4ANB@GB7EDN.#77.GBR.EU ludicrous, but still irrelevant.
- Greg Goss
Article 12343 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: Colin Edwards
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:48:03 +0000
Organization: Bespoke Project
I thought I'd forgotten this (well I have some of it) :
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.
--
Colin Edwards
Article 12461 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: andy@pbs.plym.ac.uk (Andy McMullin)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:21:40 GMT
Organization: Plymouth Business School
dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton) wrote:
> 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 :-(
----------
Regards
Andy
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Technical Support, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth
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Article 12620 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: Mark Pettigrew
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:20:42 -0800
Organization: Sheffield Hallam University
Andy McMullin wrote:
>
> 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 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]
Article 12719 of uk.radio.amateur:
From: bsbonney@cris.com (Benton StJ Bonney)
Subject: Re: The WORST phonetic alphabet
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 05:32:52 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
How about:
K is for Khadafi
Q is for Quadafi
B is for Bejing
P is for Peking
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BS Bonney
bsbonney@cris.com