A Sin of "As In"

Inspired by Ernst T. Theimer's "Able, Baker, Charlie..." in Word Ways #6.3.

“Wait, is it ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’…or…?”

“It’s T as in tsar, H as in honest, E as in eye, Q as in queue (but not cue), U as in uinta, I as in Iehovah, C as in czar, K as in knew, B as in bdellium, R as in rung, O as in oestrus, W as in wrung, N as in Nome, F as in [bleep], O as in Oedipus, X as in xenophobe, J as in ’juana, U as in, uh…M as in mnemonic, P as in pterodactyl, S as in scent (but not cent), O as in odd (but not ahhhed), V as in veni, vidi, vici, E as in ess, R as in ®, T as in the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, H as in ’istorical, E as in extra (but not X-tra), L as in lama or excessively in llama, A as in aye, Z as in zwieback, Y as in you, D as in Django, O as in a circle, and G as in gnome (but not Nome).”

“I just wanted to know if it was ‘jumps’ or ‘jumped.’ That’s…that’s all I needed to know.”

“Hey, I’m thorough.”

“This is why everyone hates you.”

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Along similar lines is a book we got for our niece last year—advertised as the worst-ever alphabet book.

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I’ve sent Journal materials to all the relevant people and gotten responses, though there are still a few matters I’ll be nailing down—most likely this weekend, after I get my day-job deadlines under control.

Coming next: More of the history of British word puzzles. And after that: The greatest Superman/Lois Lane story never (officially) told!