Это когда одна буква, цифра или иной знак при правильном прочтении звучит как целое слово, или хотя бы его часть. Широко используется при ребусах, сокращениях, шарадах.
Важно помнить, как буквы называются правильно, чтобы правильно читать такие надписи
Примеры:
1: won
2: to, too
22: tutu
3:[footnote 1] tree
4: for, fore
4M: forum (forced)
4T: forty
6T: sixty
7T: seventy
8: ate
8T: eighty
9T: ninety
&: and, end (forced)
AT: eighty
B: be, bee
B2: beat you (forced)
B4: before
B8: bait, bate
B9: benign
BD: beady
BTU: beat you (forced)
BUT: beauty
B&: band, banned
C: see, sea
CD: seedy
CL: seal
CT: city (forced)
C&: canned
D: the, thee (forced)
D4M: deform (forced)
D8: date
DK: decay
DL: deal
DV&: deviant (forced)
DVS: devious
D&D/D&E: dandy
D@: that (forced), dat
EU: eww (in context)
EZ:[footnote 2] easy
F: have (forced, in context)
F8: fate
FND: effendi
FNS: finesse
FRE1: everyone (forced)
FRE: every (forced)
FX: effects, affects
FXN: affection
FXN8: affectionate (forced)
F&: fanned
F@: fat
F@N: fatten
FMN8: effeminate (forced)
GR8: great
H8: hate
H&: hand
H@: hat
I: I, eye, aye
IC: icy, I see
II: aye-aye
IV: ivy
JL: jail
JQZ: jacuzzi
K9: canine
KL: kale
KMN: Caiman, Cayman
KND: candy (forced)
K&D/K&E: candy
K@: cat
L: well (forced)
L8: late
LI: ally
LO: hello
LRG: allergy
L&: land
M: am
MN: Oman (forced)
MT: empty
M8: mate
M8E/M8T: matey
M&: manned
N: and, an
N4M: inform (forced)
NDR: India (forced)
NDN: Indian (forced)
NDNR: Indiana (forced)
NE: any
NE1: anyone
NGL: angel (forced)
NMA: anime (forced)
NME: enemy
NML: animal
NMNE: anemone
NRG: energy
NRK: anarchy
NTD/NTT: entity
NV: envy
NVS: envious
O: oh, owe
OBDNC: obediency
ODS: odious
OPM: opium
OR: or, oar (forced)
P: pea, pee
PL: peel
PNE: peony
PT: pity
P&: panned
Q8: Kuwait
Q8E/QAT: Qu'aiti
Q: cue, queue
QT: cutie
R: are, ar, arr
R8: rate
RA: array
RKDN: arcadian
RST: arrestee
RT: arty
S: is (forced, in context)
SA: essay
SKP: escapee
T: tea, tee
TDS: tedious
T&: tanned
U: you, ewe, yew
W8: wait, weight
X: ex, eggs
XI: Act Sci (forced, colloquial shorthand for Actuarial Science)
XL: excel
XLNC: excellency
XLR8: accelerate
XPDNC: expediency
XS: excess, exes, Axis (forced)
Y: why
YT: whitey
Алфавит может быть записан фонетически, наоборот, словами:
Aye Bee Sea Dee Ee Eff Gee Aitch Eye Jay Kay Elle Em En Oh Pee Queue Are Ess Tee Ewe Vee Double You Ex Why Zee.
Детальнее:
A : Ay
B : Bee (BeeLanguage)
C : Cee (e.g., CeePlusPlus)
D : Dee (DeeLanguage)
E : Ee (e.g. EeLanguage)
F : Eff [ef]
G : Gee
H : Aitch
I : Aye (Eye, Ie, Ij)--Ij is Dutch :)
J : Jay (JayLanguage)
K : Kay (e.g., EssAndKayCombinators)
L : Ell [el]
M : Em (e.g., EmExpressions)
N : En (EnDash)
O : Oh (BigOh)
P : need a better suggestion than "Pee"....such as 'pea' perhaps? or Pe ..... What's wrong with Pi ? (see below)
Q : Queue [cue]
R : Ar
S : Ess (e.g., EssAndKayCombinators)
T : Tee
U : You? Yoo? Yue? Ue?
V : Vee
W : DoubleYou? [doubleu]
X : Ex (ExCode)
Y : Wye (That one looks best; better than Wie? Why? Wae?)
Z : Zee (AmericanCulturalAssumption), Zed (ZedLanguage)