“B as in bdellium.” Or, “B as in subtle”.
Comment on phonetic alphabet
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Better suggestions for B:
- Breath: Half the people would say “breathe” instead.
- Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that’s pronounced
- Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations
l3mming@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.
goldfndr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“B as in subtle”
A silent B? Dumb.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Bidet is puzzling enough
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.