Linear holographic Russian Nesting doll words

Welcome to the forum!

I've visited Dinosaur Comics many times. Clever stuff. I believe queue may be unique in the sense you describe.

Your comment got me thinking about "words that are pronounced the same as the letter they start with." In addition to your queue, others come to mind:

tea and tee

oh and owe

I (though that almost seems like "cheating")

bee

gee

pea and pee

I'm sure there's more. I searched this and other language forums, and could not find any official term for words like that. My Latin is a bit rusty, but what would you think about primorliteraverbum (first-letter-word)? Kinda' clunky and inelegant, and perhaps not even accurate.

Or would that better be primorliteranym?

Heimhenge said:

Your comment got me thinking about "words that are pronounced the same as the letter they start with." In addition to your queue, others come to mind:

tea and tee

oh and owe

I (though that almost seems like "cheating")

bee

gee

pea and pee

I and a few of my friends tried to make a malicious list out of these words, for spelling out your name.   We had a few approaches.   The first was your list above.   The second approach  words that sound like a different letter than their first letter:

A as in Are

C as in Cue

E as in Eye

S as in Sea

W as in Why

Y as in You

We didn't have the whole alphabet,  so we tried to fill in some of the gaps with ones equally confusing, like

D as in Djinni

T as in Tzar

K as in Know

G as in Gnu

O as in Oedipus

P as in Phonetic

X as in Xicama

As another variation, let me add this:

F as in Phone.

CheddarMelt said:

As another variation, let me add this:

 

F as in Phone.

So...

N as in pneumatic

H as in jalepeno

J as in genius

S as in circle

or:

R as in artistic

L as in elegant

N as in entity

It's so wrong.   I don't know which will come first - completing the list, or getting kicked of this board.