Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!leeway From: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Old Phonetic Alphabet Message-ID: <921@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 16:31:15 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.921 Posted: Sat Mar 17 16:31:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 08:17:47 EST References: <2499@brl-vgr.ARPA> <627@pyuxa.UUCP> Reply-To: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 21 Version of Phonetic(?) Alphabet said to have been used by Cockneys in WW2 Horses Oranges Example Mutton Warriors Two Th'Islanders Leather Me Dumb Sis La France Brick A Dig A Match Vescent Pity's Sake Breakfast Police Pleasure Mistress Beauty The Theatre Marx Brothers (or A Doctor) An Eye Mo Confused? Good. The Germans were supposed to be too. You see, it goes: A for Horses (Hay for Horses) B for Mutton (Beef or Mutton) and I'm sure you can work out the others yourself. Oh, the last one is either (Zee Four Marx Brothers) or (Zed for a Doctor). I've heard they had several sets of these things, but this is the only one I know.--Lee Gold