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Gnome and Djibouti and Knife work awesomely!

Stuff like Lane and Vein needs to be changed to something more acrophonic...?

I chose bane, feign, lane, and vein because they all sound the same. I couldn't find any words where the sound of the first letter was suitably disguised. Ideas welcome! :)

Ohhh right. So it defeats the purpose of having a longer word!

I'm glad you took up this task and finally finished the alphabet. There are a few places where yours differs from the incomplete one that I started a few years ago:

B as in Bdellium
C as in Cay (I like Czar better, though, I think)
E as in Eidetic (this is a wash)
I as in Ivo (la la la)
H as in Homage (I sort of prefer this with the long o sound instead of the short o)

Ooh, I like bdellium. That's what I get for using the /usr/share/dict/words file from linux, it only has boring words. :)

How about "Llangollen"?

Here's a nice explanation of how to pronounce a double L in Welsh:

No English equivalent. Made by putting tip of tongue on roof of mouth and blowing.

(source)

I have a slightly updated version that has Bdellium, Llama (pronounced "yama", of course), and Vrbaite. While the Welsh ll is tempting, there are probably more people worldwide that are familiar with the Spanish ll!

Could also do some similar with the last letter being the code - picking words which come out as another word or the last letter is unspoken e.g. using dictionary regexp or scrabble dictionary:

peA
numB
tiC
RoalD
queuE or Eye
massiF (massive)
twiG (Couldnt find better - maybe gung because gung ho often pronounced gun ho)
leI
ahhH

Was also thinking how to do the same for foreign letter names e.g. H = hache, J = jota, X = equis but didn't get far: Cyrillic romanised alphabet doesn't work except perhaps using Y = kratkoyeh

Nice. I attempted this on my own and came up with the following:

aisle, bdellium, cay, djinni, earn, feign, gnu, hour, isle, jinni, knew, Lyle, mnemonic, new, our, ptarmigan, quai, rite, see, tsunami, urn, vein, why, xenophobe, you, zwieback.

I liked words that are homophones with letter names other than what they start with (cay, quai, see, why, you). And homophones that could be used multiple times (aisle/isle, gnu/knew/new, etc). V had stumped me, so I did a Google search and stole your vein/feign.

Hi! I found this page by googling for "anacrophonic", because I've been working on an anacrophonic alphabet myself and I wanted to see whether other people had done similar things. My version is at http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~however/NAPA/

I had to spend a minute or two looking for this post after reading this article (the last item, not the Dr Who bit): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/verity_stob_september_shorts/page2.html