[CW] q vs y

[Stan Barr]

George Allgood wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> Good or bad for learning,  the musical phrase "HERE COMES THE BRIDE"
> is  a perfect match for the rhythm of the morse letter "Q"  DAH DAH DI-DAH.
> The letter "Y"  is DAH DI-DAH DAH which could be matched with the cadence of 
> the word
> COL-O-RAH-DOH.   You could likely find an associational match for all the 
> Morse characters,
> but it might drastically slow down the process of learning the code.

Back in the 1930s someone came up with a whole alphabet of such phrases, 
but I can't find a reference just now.
It started out:

A = Able
B = Baby-bit-it
C = Cheeky-Charlie

Q, I remember, was "Queer-khaki-cow" so CQ was "Cheeky Charlie's queer 
khaki cow" :-)