W winner, X vote, Y submit

The winner for W was "Wondrous walruses wrestle wretched warthogs while wolverines watch" submitted by Glitner76. Don't forget to submit your Y sentence using the comment section on this link.

Now, vote for which sentence should represent X in alphAmuse. Remember, the rule for X was that either all the words had to start with "ex" or all had to end in "x".

Yammering Y

Submit Y sentences by Wednesday, November 23, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: upsilon
Frequency: 18th most frequent letter in English (2)
"Y" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "At the beginning of words, is a consonant; at the end, and when it follows a consonant, is a vowel, and has the sound of i. It is used at the end of words, and whenever two i’s would come together; and in words derived from the Greek, to express the u. Y was much used by the Saxons, whence y is found for i in the old English writers." (3)

Exonerating X

SPECIAL RULES:
Since we don't really have words that begin with X, for this round we will except sentence that follow either of the following rules. (Each sentence should follow only one rule; don't mix and match.)

Rule 1: All words begin with "ex" (excellent, exigency, exuberant)
OR
Rule 2: All words end with "x" (fax, six, flax)


Submit X sentences by Wednesday, November 16, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: ?
Frequency: 24th most frequent letter in English (2)
"X" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "is a letter, which, though found in Saxon words, begins no word in the English language." (3)

Results for V, Vote for W

The winner for V was "Vigilant Victorians vanquished villainous Velociraptors". I can't wait to craft construction paper cut outs of Victorians...

suggestions welcome.

Vote for the W sentence by Tuesday the 15th.

Wholloping W

Submit W sentences by Wednesday, November 9, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: none
Frequency: 15th most frequent letter in English (2)
"W" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is a letter of which the form is not to be found in the alphabets of the learned languages; though it is not improbable that by our w is expressed the sound of the Roman v, and the Eolick f. Both the form and sound are excluded from the languages derived from the Latin." (3)

Vote for V

Vote for the best sentence to represent V in the alphAmuse book. Poll closes Monday night.