One fun past-time is to look up all of the various radio "alphabets" that have been used over the years. The sheer variety - even evolutions inside large organizations (typically military ones) is fascinating to observe. The most commonly used alphabet is this one:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
But the variations are truly astonishing. Often small groups make up their own... seemingly for fun, if nothing else. C'mon, go ahead and try it. It's rather difficult, actually, finding 26 different words that sound distinct, are short, and start with 26 different letters. (For an additional challenge, try doing the same in a different alphabet/language.)
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Alma, Brahms, Carter, Debussy, Elgar, Franck, Gluck,
Haydn, Ives, Josquin, Ketelby, Lalo, Mahler, Nielsen,
Offenbach, Pierne, Quilter, Rossini, Schuytte, Tailleferre, Ung,
Vasks, Willaert, Xavier, Ysaye, Zemlinsky.
(Chess players would be harder.)
The Music Librarian at Princeton, many years ago, acqured some piano music of Ludwig Schuytte solely because of the possible sound of his last name.
- The Precision Blogger
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yes, but tailleferre, my dear, is *way* too much of a mouthful.
I just threw Tailleferre in to be annoying. It's not so hard to say tho, "tie'uh-fur" is pretty close, I think.
Maybe we should use Drdla for D.
- PB
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