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Spoken‐form ideas
Enyium edited this page Jan 2, 2026
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This is a place where people can write down alternative spoken forms for commonly used things, like punctuation.
Please only add entries after you've used them for a month and are confident that they at least work well for you.
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cancel cancel: dont do it (only 3 instead of 4 syllables, and not similar tocancel) -
escape: flee -
enter:- For control: yes, okay, sure, indeed (the latter only when not being understood or with an unexpected amount of required confirmations)
- For text input: break
- Unspecified: shock, slap, clap, send
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space:- For control: push (pressing a button along the z-axis, like when holding down the physical space bar)
- For text input: blank
- For punctuation characters with multi-syllable spoken forms, followed by a space character, you can create extra definitions with rules consisting of the first syllable of the punctuation character's spoken form and the space word: e.g.,
com blank: ", ", orco blank: ": ".
- For punctuation characters with multi-syllable spoken forms, followed by a space character, you can create extra definitions with rules consisting of the first syllable of the punctuation character's spoken form and the space word: e.g.,
- Unspecified: void, ace, ta, pad
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tab(key, not UI element): swing, spit, leap -
backslash: whack, stroke, backstroke -
slash: stroke -
page up: upper, punk, dusk -
page down: downer, scroll, dawn, page -
~: wave -
@: dizzy, swirl -
": inch, double -
': foot, tick, single -
?: quark, quest -
_: blank, score -
,: drip -
;: dripper, semi, sasha -
:: stack, deckle -
undo that: nope, nix, junk, blast -
backward delete: wipe, scratch -
forward delete: wiper, wash, deli, flick, delright, drill, punch, scrub, delete -
go word left: drain, before -
go word right: step, after -
go left: tug, left -
go right: push, right -
delete word left: scratcher, span -
delete word right: swallow -
select all: saul (sounds like "it's all..." before correction) -
{: lacer, lackey, brace -
}: racer, racky, clace, rebrace -
[: lacker, locker, brack -
]: racker, rocker, clack, resquare -
<: langle, chomp -
>: rangle, rechomp -
^: tangle, dagger -
(: curve, lub, lepper, paren -
): recurve, rub, repper, cloren -
()(user.insert_between): round -
[](user.insert_between): square -
{}(user.insert_between): curly -
<>(user.insert_between): diamond -
""(user.insert_between): quad -
''(user.insert_between): twin -
``(user.insert_between): ski -
open command prompt: please -
talon sleep: drowse, quiet, snooze -
save: okay, disk -
control: troll, king -
alt: bill -
shift: ship, shin -
menu key: context
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pk2gwTFbMebgYSsrxIFsZ-QvpEPWCybF8ypdeBvfBsg