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There are several wordlists which have been curated this way. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list



Thanks, that's a neat resource to making hexadecimal numbers for memorizable and easier to transmit phonetically with some built in error checking from the odd/even list alternation.

However, for the core purpose of the phonetic transmission, it seems needlessly verbose and cumbersome. The short wordlist combines with some fairly long component words to make the phonetic representation unnecessarily long. Additionally, I'm not super into some of the fairly obscure names and words included on that list. If I don't need memorability and hexadecimal atomicity, it doesn't seem worth using.




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