Don't forget the Double-U for the letter D. It's an absolute mess.

information age

How many of these characters predate it by several decades?

reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi

Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.

It should be a "hard ts" which is something we mostly picked up from the French that is also a sound used in Japanese. So there should be a difference between saying "tsu" and saying "sue."

Tsu should be pronounced with teeth together and pushing air out through the teeth first, tongue against the lower front teeth for the hissy-t sound, before the vowel. (it's hard to write how to pronounce a word)

I read it as choonami which is still not very helpful

At first I was confused, then annoyed and finally relieved when I realised I was being punked

Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.

Bidet is puzzling enough. Then there's modern portmanteaus like bussy (really, any word that has a more well-known P-word, like blot, will work) and NATO PA soundalikes like bike. And words with stress on other syllables that make the B less distinct, especially evil ones are before and benign for sounding like B4 and B9.

"B as in bdellium." Or, "B as in subtle".