A - illustrated!

Remember A? Here it is in full color! (By the way, D is feeling lonely.)

Vote for B (+ results for A)

Voting for A is closed and the official winner is: "Alert! Alert! An angry, armored aardvark army approaches!" Congratulations to Abe Gong for his award-winning sentence.

Time to vote for your favorite sentence to represent B.

Which sentence should go into the alphAmuse book for the letter "B"?

Vote for the A sentence

Which sentence should go into the alphAmuse book for the letter "A"?

start at the very beginning: A

This week's featured letter is A. I've put together some facts about A. Enjoy, and then use the comments section to post a sentence made of words that all begin with the letter A. Sound daunting? Just try it out - it's actually pretty fun, and comments can be anonymous.

All About A

Origins: pictogram of an Ox head (1)

Greek: alpha
Frequency: 3rd most frequent letter in English (2)
"A" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "The first letter of the European alphabets, has, in the English language, three different sounds, which may be termed the broad, open, and slender." (Broad = all, wall; Open: father, rather; slender: place, face) (3)

Of Interest:The words abstemious and arsenious contain all the vowels in the correct order. (4)

A study published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology in March 2010 found that when students see the letter "A" before a test they may perform better than when they see the letter "F" or a neutral letter "J". (5)