What are some words that you can spell with 2 or 3 letters?

Question

I need a couple, =)

Examples-

Energy- NrG
Ecstasy - xTc

Thanks=)

Answer 1

Four qualifications I think you want
1) disallow things that are simply acronyms (probably not even "TV")
2) no numerals
3) only use the sound of the letter names, not sounds the letters make (thus gr is not "gr-" or "ger", it is "gee-arr")
4) BIG one --must pronounce it as the word is ACTUALLY pronounced, esp. using the VOWEL sound of the real word, or at least something very close. (That's why ntt does NOT work. The scond syllable has a short i, NOT the ee of "tee". Similar problems rule out nrg, xtc and feg.)

My list:

Two-letter:
sa (essay)
bb (beebee [as in beebee gun])
ad [or "at" in British English] (eighty)
be (beady)
cd (seedy)
ne (any)
yre (wirey ?)
xL (excel)
qp (cupie [type of doll])
tp (tee-pee)
xs (excess)
mt (empty)
qt (cutie)
pd/pt (peaty)
yt ('whitey')
zt (ziti)
nv (envy)
pv (peavy)
ez (easy)

Three-letter**
nme (enemy)
lme (elemi - type of resin)

**a minor problem here --Often, in THREE-syllable cases, one of the vowels that has no accent is "reduced" to a sort of "uh" sound (called "schewa" or "schewa", often indicated in dictionaries by a reversed upside-down e) rather than th original long vowel sound. For that reason, I've avoided several other 3-letter "words". But I think these two come close enough, even pronounced e.g., "en-em-ee" (vs. the more precise EN-(uh)-mee)


IF you allow things that were originally acronyms but now have their own spelling, you might allow dj (deejay), mc ("emcee", though from "master of ceremonies" perhaps now its own word?)


proper names (esp nicknames):
ob (Obi), rb (Arbie), lc (Elsie), dd (Didi), od (Odie), fe (Effie), le (Ellie), me, (Emmie), re (Ari), op (Opie), kt (Katie), pd/pt (Petey), rt (Artie), sx (Essex) [though the last is more correctly pronounced ESS(uh)x, with that reduced vowel]

If you have a Cockney accent, you might add some, such as:
rp (harpie)
rt (hearty)

Answer 2

Password

Answer 3

Before: B4
Later: L8r

Answer 4

great = gr8
okay = ok
over = ova
eggs = egz
does = duz
expiate = xp8

Answer 5

ntt ~ entity
nme ~ enemy
feg ~ effigy
qt ~ cutie
tp ~ teepee
vj ~ veejay

Answer 6

nrg doesn't work - it's not the letter "er", it's the letter "are"
and it's ex-ta-see not ex-tee-see

sorry

Answer 7

Anyone = Ne1

Answer 8

do not no

Answer 9

Stupid - You

Answer 10

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