We have phonetic alphabets to clearly describe spellings (d as in Delta, etc.)

What's your best misleading phonetic alphabets? I'll start:

P as in pneumonia
H as in honest

C as in Cue
Q as in Queue
E as in Eye
B as in Bee
S as in Sea

@Gerrymandered E as in Eye is my favorite! Probably the most misleading it gets.

Example. All silent letters. They are dumb, but at leat they make spotting foreigners easier.

Here you go

A as in Aye
G as in gnat
K as in knight
T as in tsunami
W as in write
X as in Xuxa

I have one related to Q that I would find myself having to explain all the time but I forgot what it was because I stopped using it a couple years ago.

Lately, I have run into people using key phrases for some god awful reason.

A: Alpha Male
B: Brad Pitt
J: Jennifer Aniston
S: Sydney Poitier
T: Tequila Sunrise

and so on.

Remembered it:

Q: Quesadilla

Another one I had to stop using:

C: Chaos

I as in "crew" [the e part] good luck figuring it out 😁

@netikras I as in Team!

@AlgoRythm nope.. I that makes the following vowel softer :)

@CaptainKirk Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos, is a ladder.

I think it's "oh" in French. It might be:

- au: "to the" followed by male singular.
- aux: "to the" followed by plural.
- eau: "water"
- eaux: "waters" (e.g. territorial)
- haut: "high" followed by male singular.
- hauts: "high" followed by male plural.
- aulx: "garlic" (rare plural form)
- oh: "oh" (interjection)

@Fast-Nop isn't "hauts" pronounced "oht"?

@Lor-inc no, that would be written "haute" or "hautes", referring to a feminine substantive.

*laughs silently in German*

@netikras No, it’s ‘I’ as in: The proof review before submitting my post should have been more thorough. ;)

@Fast-Nop technically haut and hauts would be pronounced with a glottal stop

@retnikt yeah but that's not noticeable with a freestanding word.