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So forever ago, Smitha wrote in her LJ something about spelling alphabets and never being able to think of countries to associate with certain letters. What do you use for X? Anyway, that got me to think that defunct empires would be a good spelling alphabet to use, not because it would be easy to understand, but because I suspected that I could design it to be pretty hard to decipher. For example, when I got to H I chose “Holy Roman Empire” and for R I chose “Roman Empire.” Although it isn’t ambiguous, unless you were paying attention you might get lost.

So I finally wrote a little web app to give you the spelling alphabet spelling for a number of different alphabets. Some of them (NATO, LAPD) are actually in use. Some of the others (defunct empire, etc) I just made up for fun. I made defunct empire the default because it seemed to be the least useful.

• www.wdlabs.com/twilight/lingua/alphabet

(btw- if you can think of a country that starts with X let me know. I will accept historical, currently nonexistent countries, but not fictional countries, as I am currently using the fictional country Xanth for X because I couldn’t think of anything else. I also need defunct empires for W X and Y; the current X is actually the capitol of an Empire, not the Empire itself)

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[obligateaerobe.livejournal.com]

i like the spelling tool. nobody ever understands my words for spelling since they are never culturally correct words.

ps: according to my world atlas, there is no modern recognized country whose name starts with an "x".

pps: you should make alphabet consisting of superhero/supervillan names

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Yeah, that is why I said I would accept historical but currently nonexistent countries. Although I think even that is being hopeful. I think that historical is better than totally fictional.

I'm not well versed on the super heroes. Although I totally don't know why it didn't occur to me to make one based on G1 Transformers!

Here is what I can think of:

Aquaman
Batman
Catwoman
Darkwing Duck
Elastigirl
the Flash
Green Lantern
the Hulk
Mr. Incredible
Joker
Lex Luther
Magneto
the Penguin
the Riddler
Spider-man
Two-Face
the Underminer
Venom
Wonder Woman
Xavier
Zod

That leaves K N O Q and Y. Thoughts?

xiongnu

[(Anonymous)]

i don't know if this works for you, but xiongnu is an empire that no longer exists. It's kind of based in modern day china ....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiongnu

Re: xiongnu

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perfect!