Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Book Is Here!

As of 5 minutes ago, I finished the fully illustrated alphAmuse. It's a wonderful read.

You should be able to see the book by visiting the following link (message to my immediate family: do not click on the link if you want to maintain some element of surprise for your Christmas gift):

http://www5.snapfish.com/meijer/projectshareewelcome/l=3746267028/p=247131323835358375/g=3810361028/cobrandOid=1082272/COBRAND_NAME=meijer/otsc=SYE/otsi=SPBKlink/

If anyone is interested in ordering a copy of the book, I can get it between now and December 15 for $23. Just leave a comment or send me an email.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Results for X, Y, and Zonking Z

Winner for X was "Excepting exaggerated exuberant expressions, exceptional executives exhibit exemplary exhalation exercises" by Brady.

Y defaulted to "Yoga yetis yodel yearly" by Erin.

And now, finally, we are ready for Z! Submit Z sentences by Wednesday, December 7, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: zeda
Frequency: 26th most frequent letter in English (2)
"Z" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is found in the Saxon alphabets, set down by Grammarians, but is read in no word originally Teutonick: its sound is uniformly that of an hard S." (3)