{"id":27,"date":"2020-06-10T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:15:00","slug":"k-as-in-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/k-as-in-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"k as in knife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many moons ago my earlier version of my blog had this list I use when spelling things for people over the phone. I managed to find it at archive.org and thought I\u2019d repost\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a as in aisle (or aye)<\/li><li>b as in bdellium&nbsp;<\/li><li>c as in czar<\/li><li>d as in djibouti<\/li><li>e as in eight<\/li><li>f as in fjord&nbsp;<\/li><li>g as in gnaw<\/li><li>h as in herb&nbsp;<\/li><li>i as in isle (ioan was recommended but I\u2019m split on this one)<\/li><li>j as in jalepeno<\/li><li>k as in knife<\/li><li>l as in Lladro (llano was another suggested alternate)<\/li><li>m as in mnemonic<\/li><li>n as in Nguyen (or ngwee)<\/li><li>o as in oestrogen<\/li><li>p as in pneumatic<\/li><li>q as in queue (or quay \u2013 pronounced \u2018kay\u2019)<\/li><li>r as in ????&nbsp;<\/li><li>s as in scene (or sea)<\/li><li>t as in tao (pronounced with the \u2018t\u2019 as a \u2018d\u2019)&nbsp;<\/li><li>u as in uakari&nbsp;<\/li><li>v as in \u201cFive\u201d (as in the roman numeral five \u2013 yes, a bit weak, but still gives the level of confusion suitable for phone conversations)&nbsp;<\/li><li>w as in wrench (or \u2018why\u2019)<\/li><li>x as in xenon&nbsp;<\/li><li>y as in yttrium (Yvonne might work better for the phone?)<\/li><li>z as in ????????<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Got some ideas to help fill in the blanks? Let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago my earlier version of my blog had this list I use when spelling things for people over the phone. I managed to find it at archive.org and thought I\u2019d repost\u2026 a as in aisle (or aye) b as in bdellium&nbsp; c as in czar d as in djibouti e as in eight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}