The Royal Navy grouped some destroyers under names beginning with the same letter. The Daring-class examples range from Daring, Diamond, Defender, and Duchess to Delight, Dainty, and Decoy. These choices combine forceful names with others that sound unexpectedly gentle. The imagined scene of planners working through a dictionary is a joke about that variety.
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How an alphabetical destroyer scheme produced Daring, Delight, and Dainty
Alphabetical class conventions allowed forceful and unexpectedly gentle names to appear in the same destroyer class.