Words that sound like a string of letters

My PBS station is W-PNE, which I always think of as a flower.

How about the N.E.E.K.C. (Annie E. Casey) Foundation?

I always used to abbreviate “B4” in my class notes.

There’s also science fiction’s (and the SDMB’s) Ralph 124C41+ The plus is extraneous, but the rest says “one to foresee for one.”

Just popping in to recommend this! Also the sequel, CDC.

Absolutely great fun and very creative:

V F E-10 D L-F-N

α ב

There was a thread sometime ago about people who heard NPR’s sponsor The *Annie E. Casey *foundation as The NEEKC foundation…

I know where you live! (That was my PBS station when I was a kid. :slight_smile: )

Eh. . . ya don’t say? (OK, I didn’t actually point to the link, but notice the first hit.)

I went to a restaurant in Tampa, FL, that was named CDB’s. When we asked about the name, the waiter brought out the book, CDB. I think that there a few in the chain now.

Since I haven’t seen it, I’ll add the always popular:
XTC = ecstasy
Also a British band from the 70s/80s.

My favorite is only valid if one lays on one’s Boston accent with a trowel:

PSDS

Pierced ears

And Canadians spell their country’s name “CND.”

C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?

OK, an actual example:

NMNE

S, V F no bananas.
V F no bananas today.

World’s shortest poem:

Caesar’s observations for posterity upon being stabbed by Brutus

U 2?

YY U R
YY U B
I C U R
YY 4 ME!

Too wise you are,
Too wise you be,
I see you are
Too wise for me

If you see Kay
Tell him he may
See you in tea
Tell him from me.

  • James Joyce

If you seek Amy

  • Britney Spears

My seventh-grade math teacher taught us this nifty mnemonic: Laryngitis, Call Dr. Merrit.

Oicur12

E Zed E Zed? :wink:

Common license plate: IXLR8.

My wife has two good friends from different African countries, and both have names that sound like strings of English letters: Ije (EJ) and Elodie (LOD). It seemed enough of a coincidence to make it a mild joke among the three of them (EJ and LOD didn’t know each other except through my wife.)