“Which row was it, ‘basketball fish’ or ‘cake potato’?
Of course, the words would need to be a checksum. As soon as you introduce them, nobody is looking at the hex again. Which is an improvement, since nobody is looking at all the hex now “it’s the one ending in ‘4ab’”.
There's been a lot of historical work done in the past and I used NIST FIPS181 to implement this.
Note: FIPS181 was intended for passwords and I was using them as handy short human-readable record IDs as per your post. You probably shouldn't use FIPS181 for passwords in 2026 LOL.
Describing FIPS181 as pronounceable is optimistic. However its better than random text wrt human conversations. They start looking like mysterious assembly language mnemonics after awhile.
BASKETBALL-9a176cbe-7655-4850-9e7f-b98c4b3b4704-FISH
CAKE-3a01d58f-59d3-4b0c-87dc-4152c816f442-POTATO
“Which row was it, ‘basketball fish’ or ‘cake potato’?
Of course, the words would need to be a checksum. As soon as you introduce them, nobody is looking at the hex again. Which is an improvement, since nobody is looking at all the hex now “it’s the one ending in ‘4ab’”.