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On 7/8/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > I'm still agonizing over letter names. How do these seem? > > pao > beu > tea > doa > kae > geo > > feo > vae > seu > zao > xoa > yea > > hei > cae > joe They're fairly distinct from each other. But for pronominal usage I think monosyllables work better. And it may be too late for this (too many words in the lexicon already to have collisions with), but an easy rule for remembering letter names would be nice. Something like unvoiced consonants get a name which is the named consonant plus "-al", while voiced consonants get "-un" -- or whatever suffixes you might find that sound distinct and don't cause collision with existing words. That would keep letter names fairly distinct for spelling out loud in noisy environments, but be easy to learn and remember. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm