A for Orses

[skyring]

Stolen from Fancy'orse

Talent Verscence Art thou God's sake Mism Miles 'Orses Red Mism Red Rential Or Moment Williams Two 'Orses Red Rential Two Consent Talent Williams, Miles God's sake Relief Art thou 'Orses Red Rential Relief 'Orses Williams Two Or Talent Two Two God's sake Art thou God's sake Mism Moment Leather Talent La France Or Oranges God's sake Mism Moment Red 'Orses Leather.

Comments

[appleshoelace.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you must have spent ages coming up with that!

eye for talent, effervescence, whyfore art thou (shouldn't it be 'wherefore'??), oh for God's sake, euphemism, see for miles, 'ay for 'orses, infrared (that must be your Australian accent making 'en' sound like 'in'!), euphemism, infrared, differential (and also your Australian accent making 'di' sound like 'dee'), er... can't get 'ee for or', 'alf a moment, ess for williams? (some famous person? Esther Williams?), tea for two, 'ay for 'orses, infrared, differential... gosh, this takes forever! I'm going to stop now. But I'm guessing 'jaffa oranges' is what you mean by the hardest one.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Well done!

Ee for or, yeah it's not a good one. Either/Or.
Yes on Jaffa oranges.
It's silly and kind of logical. A reaction to the phonetic alphabets that appeared in WW2: A for Able, B for Baker...

I used to be a signalman during my days in the University Regiment, and I'd practise reciting the real phonetic alphabet out loud on my way to and from uni each day. It was a fairly long walk through the bush and I'd speak them out loud to myself, occasionally running into a cyclist or someone coming the other way at a corner, puzzled by the stream of nonsense words.

Later on, I memorised The Ballad of Eskimo Nell the same way, with even more potential for embarrassment,