Alphabet Key

Pronunciation Key

To pronounce any given letter, you pronounce the first “sound” of the associated water/human-related word that each letter of the alphabet pairs with. This is an approximate sound.

For example, the associated water/human-related word for the letter A is Aquatic. So the pronunciation for the letter A is “Awk”. Like the sound at the front of awkward or aqua. 

Then to pronounce an entire word, you put together each of the letter-representative sounds together. 

For example the word River

R - ree I - eee V -vay E - eh R - ree

Water/Human-related Words

A (Aquatic) “Awk”
B (Body) “Bah”
C (Confluence) “Con”
D (Depth) “Dep”
E (Eddy) “Eh”
F (Fluent) “Flu”
G (Great Divide) “Gray”
H (Head Waters) “Heh”
I (Irrigate) “Eee”
J (Joy) “Juh”
K (Kiss) “Key”
L (Lotic) “Low”
M (Mouth) “Mao”
N (Navigate) “Neh”
O (Open) “Ooe”
P (Pour) “Poe”
Q (Quench) “Quay”
R (River) “Ree”
S (Seek) “See”
T (Tributary) “Tree”
U (Upstream) “Uh”
V (Vapor) “Vay”
W (Wave) “Way”
X (Xeriscape) “Zee”
Y (Young) “Yuh”
Z (Zen) “Zeh”