Showing posts with label x. Show all posts
Showing posts with label x. Show all posts

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)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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".

Friday, November 11, 2011

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)