Quick reminder to submit your P sentences by Saturday!
Go here and comment with your sentence: http://alpha-musing.blogspot.com/2011/06/playing-p.html
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Playing P
Submit P sentences by Saturday, June 25, using comments on this post.
Origins: ?
Greek: pi (sound); rho (looks)
Frequency: 19th most frequent letter in English (2)
"P" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is a labial consonant, formed by a slight compression of the anterior part of the lips; as, pull, pelt. It is confounded by the Germans and Welsh with b: it has an uniform sound: it is sometimes mute before t; as, accompt, receipt; but the mute p is in modern orthography commonly omitted." (3)
Origins: ?
Greek: pi (sound); rho (looks)
Frequency: 19th most frequent letter in English (2)
"P" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is a labial consonant, formed by a slight compression of the anterior part of the lips; as, pull, pelt. It is confounded by the Germans and Welsh with b: it has an uniform sound: it is sometimes mute before t; as, accompt, receipt; but the mute p is in modern orthography commonly omitted." (3)
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Results for L & M, Vote for N and O
L was a tie, decided on by random.org. The winner was "Little Louise leased lousy Lionel's lemon." Submitted by Sherry.
The winning sentence for M was "'Mush! Mush!' menaced Mickey mercilessly, making miserables mutts march." Submitted by Erin.
Vote for N and O, below. Polls close on Wednesday night.
Vote for N!
Vote for O!
The winning sentence for M was "'Mush! Mush!' menaced Mickey mercilessly, making miserables mutts march." Submitted by Erin.
Vote for N and O, below. Polls close on Wednesday night.
Vote for N!
Vote for O!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
N needs you!
N is feeling lonely since no one wrote a sentence for him (her?). So I'm extending the deadline for N submissions to this Wednesday, June 15. While we're at it, go ahead and add to O if you feel like it until Wednesday, too.
I've had a few people tell me that the letter submissions and voting come and go so quickly they have a hard time remembering to post sentences. So I'm going to lengthen our the timing and add reminder posts between each letter. This is a slightly less drastic measure than an earlier idea I had of holding my family captive during our family reunion last week and demanding they write sentences through Z for me.
Also, more illustrations on their way!
I've had a few people tell me that the letter submissions and voting come and go so quickly they have a hard time remembering to post sentences. So I'm going to lengthen our the timing and add reminder posts between each letter. This is a slightly less drastic measure than an earlier idea I had of holding my family captive during our family reunion last week and demanding they write sentences through Z for me.
Also, more illustrations on their way!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Ordering O
Submit O sentences by Saturday, June 11, using comments on this post.
Origins: eye (1)
Greek: omega
Frequency: 4th most frequent letter in English (2)
"O" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): " Has in English a long sound; as, drone, groan, slone, alone, cloke, broke, coal, droll; or short, got, knot, shot, prong, long. It is usually denoted long by a servile a subjoined; as, moan, or by e at the end of the syllable; as, bone." (3)
Origins: eye (1)
Greek: omega
Frequency: 4th most frequent letter in English (2)
"O" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): " Has in English a long sound; as, drone, groan, slone, alone, cloke, broke, coal, droll; or short, got, knot, shot, prong, long. It is usually denoted long by a servile a subjoined; as, moan, or by e at the end of the syllable; as, bone." (3)
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Noodling N
Submit N sentences by Saturday, June 4, using comments on this post.
Origins: snake (1)
Greek: nu
Frequency: 6th most frequent letter in English (2)
"N" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A semivowel, has in English an invariable sound; as, no, name, net; it is sometimes after m almost lost; as, condemn, contemn." (3)
Origins: snake (1)
Greek: nu
Frequency: 6th most frequent letter in English (2)
"N" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A semivowel, has in English an invariable sound; as, no, name, net; it is sometimes after m almost lost; as, condemn, contemn." (3)
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