Results for E, Submit for F

Congratulations Abe, on the winning E sentence: Every evil enchanter envies Eduardo's elegant eyebrows.

Elegant, indeed.

Now on to F. Submit your F sentence using comments on this post.

Origins: hook or club (1)
Greek: digamma
Frequency: 16th most frequent letter in English (2)
"F" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A consonant generally reckoned by authors, and admitted by Scaliger, among the semi-vowels, and according to that opinion distinguished in the enumeration of the alphabet by a name beginning with a vowel, yet has so far the nature of a mute, that it is easily pronounced before a liquid in the same syllable." (3)

Vote for E

Okay, we stalled out on E, but we're back on track with 2 choices for E sentences. You have until Sunday night to vote!

D winner

We had another tie for D, and random.org settled the debate. The winning D sentence is,

Dorothy's dreams don't disappoint: dilapidated dungeons, diaphanous dresses, dangerous dodos, dulcet drummers dying dramatically.

Congratulations, Brady!

Entertaining E

Origins: praying or calling human figure (1)
Greek: epsilon
Frequency: The most frequent letter in English (2)
"C" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "E is the most frequent vowel in the English language; for it not only is used like the rest in the beginning or end of words, but has the peculiar quality of lengthening the foregoing vowel. Anciently almost every word ended with e; as for can, canne; for year, yeare; for great, greate; for need, neede; for flock, flocke. It is probable that this e final had at first a soft sound and that afterwards it was in poetry either mute or vocal, as the verse required, ’till at last it became universally silent." (3)

Of Interest:
E is the first letter of my name!
But perhaps of more general interest, check out Carol King's "A Alligators All Around", a childhood favorite of mine.

What alphabet books, songs, rhymes did you love as a kid?

Results for C

In a shocking turn of events, we had a tie for the letter C sentence.

Sentence 1: Clara's colorful cookie crumbs completedly covered Connie's comfortable couch cushions, causing Connie considerable consternation.

Sentence 2: Cunning chefs create camouflaged cupcakes causing customer confusion concerning clandestine confections.

According to the official alphAmuse rules, a winning sentence is chosen from the tied sentences by a random process using http://www.random.org/. I asked random.org to generate a random number between 1 and 2. If the number was 1, then Sentence 1 won; if the number was 2, then Sentence 2 won.

The result? 2. Cupcakes for everyone.

(full disclosure, sentence 2 was mine...)

Vote for D

Which sentence should represent the letter D in the alphAmuse book?

A - illustrated!

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