Then I took up regularly and patiently the B's. They resulted in nothing. I tried C, both hard and soft, thinking intently whether the sound awoke any response in my brain.
I abandoned the soft C, but hard C did not sound impossible; I stored it up for future examination.
Then I went through D and E, and so on down to G, which I separated into two sounds, as I had already done with C, soft and hard. This examination resulted in my putting hard G alongside of hard C.
H, I, and J were examined with like result--nothing.
The K was at once given a place with the preferred letters.
L, M, N, O were speedily rejected.
At P I halted long, and at last decided to hold it in reserve, but not to give it equal rank with the others.
Q gave me little trouble. I ran down all possible names in Q-u, and rejected all.
The remainder of the letters were examined and discarded.
In order of seniority I now had the following initial letters: C hard, G hard, and K, with P a possibility.