arXiv:0901.4016v2 [cs.SE] 26 Jan 2009 Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson version 1.0, 26 January 2009 Identifiers (IDs) are pervasive throughout our modern life. We suggest that these IDs would be easier to manage and remember if they were easily readable, spellable, and pronounceable. As a solution to this problem we propose using PRO-nouncable QUINT-uplets of alternating unambiguous consonants and vowels: proquints . Our life is full of identifying numbers. However the number-ness of these numbers is irrelevant. A credit-card number is not a number exactly — when was the last time you did arithmetic on one? Mostly these numbers are identifiers : their only function is to be unique. The problem is, they are getting longer as the world of things that must be uniquely identified gets larger: the number of things goes up, previously disjoint contexts merge, and history gets lo...