# Words that sound like a string of letters
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 23, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999 "2013-12-23T06:08:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/1 "2013-12-23T06:08:49Z")
The Good
Escapee: SKP
Empty: MT (depends on your dialect, but that’s the way I say it)
The Bad
Emcee: MC
What are some others?
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/2 "2013-12-23T06:25:59Z")
How do you spell ‘hungry horse’ in four letters?
A: MTGG.
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### Author:  [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/3 "2013-12-23T06:41:46Z")
i see you pee
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/4 "2013-12-23T08:33:29Z")
When I was a kid, I had a book that was written entirely of letters. All I remember is someone eating MNX.
Ham and eggs.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/5 "2013-12-23T09:03:59Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> When I was a kid, I had a book that was written entirely of letters. All I remember is someone eating MNX.
>
> Ham and eggs.
_The Two Ronnies_ did a sketch of this (I think framing it as a German Language instructional video)
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### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/6 "2013-12-23T10:00:12Z")
And here it is (Swedish, actually): [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ)
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### Author:  [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/7 "2013-12-23T10:03:19Z")
S. V f x .
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/8 "2013-12-23T11:45:57Z")
My sister used to recite a little poem that was all letters and numbers:
L O L O A Q I C
I 8 2 Q B 4 I P
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/9 "2013-12-23T11:58:49Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#):
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> Emcee: MC
This one isn’t a coincidence. “Master of Ceremonies” was abbreviated to M.C., which then came to be spelled Emcee.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/10 "2013-12-23T13:11:56Z")
Canine: K9.
–edit–
Oops, that includes a number. Does it still count?
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/11 "2013-12-23T13:18:08Z")
Katie = KT
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/12 "2013-12-23T13:25:15Z")
This is the perfect song for this thread:
[I C U](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Th1e5Le5B4)
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/13 "2013-12-23T13:28:02Z")
preempt.
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### Author:  [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/14 "2013-12-23T13:52:34Z")
EZPZ,
QT, or even QTpi
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/15 "2013-12-23T14:40:24Z")
Actually, that’s how I remember Roman numerals: ivy, excel, seedy, em.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/16 "2013-12-23T15:01:44Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> When I was a kid, I had a book that was written entirely of letters. All I remember is someone eating MNX.
>
> Ham and eggs.
Probably William Steig’s **CDB**
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/17 "2013-12-23T15:03:35Z")
MR DUCKS.
MR NOT.
MR2! CMEDBDFEET?
[sub]this is just a line of lower-case letters so the auto-correct doesn’t render the above content in sentence-case.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/18 "2013-12-23T15:08:12Z")
Easy E Z
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### Author:  [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/19 "2013-12-23T16:37:10Z")
Emily
MLE
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-like-a-string-of-letters/676999/20 "2013-12-23T18:26:51Z")
Early Christian scholar [Eusebius](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius): UCBS.
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