The Fanatic Alphabet

In early 1978, as a geek/writer in Kentucky, I wrote an alternative phonetic alphabet and occasionally used it to mess with phone operators. I pretty much forgot about it other than posting on Usenet and an ancient blog until I saw that someone had done a book on this theme… so in the interest of preserving the history I post it here.

I never did come up with a good word for F, so that became the title. S and N are also way too obscure. I remember browsing the unabridged dictionary…