Charlie, Delta...) in which the letters of the English alphabet are arbitrarily assigned words and names in an acrophonic manner to avoid misunderstanding. Most notes of the solfege scalenamely re, mi, fa, sol, and laderive their names from the first syllable of the lines of Ut queant laxis, a Latin hymn. See also Alphabet effect History of the alphabet Logogram References Onomastics Alphabets