Some ground rules: Let’s ignore stress, “single letter words” like R and U, whether or not the initialism is common or even in use, and lets not quibble about whether or not someone’s pronunciation of a word is sufficiently common to count (just don’t go full Raymond Luxury-Yacht).
The word seedy is pronounced like the names of the letters C and D put together. What other words are there like that?
cutie (QT)
arty (RT)
beady (BD)
Essen (SN)
tepee (TP)
Emu (Eμ)
beauty - BUT
esteem - STM
embue - MBU
movie (μV)
icy - IC
Arby’s is named after the founders, the Raffel brothers.
Are we talking like ‘scuba’ or ‘awol’?
I’m grammatically challenged.
I started a (short-lived) game in Thread Games some years ago based on this and the best entry was from Prof.Pepperwinkle:
L-N DGNRS 1 N M-E.
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energy - NRG
efficacy - FIKC (sort of works, anyway)
FEKC works slightly better, no?
No, those are read straight as words. See the examples here. We’re talking combinations of letters that when read by sounding out the letter names sound like a word. CD (seedy), NRG (Energy), YR (Wire … that one’s a stretch).
N6. You know, like ants and bees. Some types of N6 are a natural NME of other types.
Ohhhh! I see.
I don’t know any😋
A Van Halen album name: OU812 (Oh, you ate one, too)
The first personalized license plate I remember seeing, sometime in the mid '70s: 10 SNE 1 (Tennis, anyone?)
YYURYYUBICURYY4ME (Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me)
C NMNE → sea anemone
ICU2 (I see you too!)
ICQ - I seek you