Vociforating V (& U results)

Winner for U was "Ultrasonic ukuleles underimpress users" submitted by Erin.

Submit V sentences by Wednesday, October 26, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: none
Frequency: 21st most frequent letter in English (2)
"V" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Has two powers, expressed in modern English by two characters, V consonant and U vowel, which ought to be considered as two letters; but as they were long confounded while the two uses were annexed to one form, the old custom still continues to be followed. V, the consonant, has a sound nearly approaching to those of b and f. With b it is by the Spaniards and Gascons always confounded, and in the Runick alphabet is expressed by the same character with f, distinguished only by a diacritical point. Its sound in English is uniform. It is never mute." (3)

Vote for U

Vote for U by Thursday, Sept 29.

Unveiling U

Clearly, getting behind in other areas of life.

Without further ado, submit U sentences by Tuesday, September 20, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: none
Frequency: 13th most frequent letter in English (2)
"U" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "U, the vowel, has two sounds; one clear, expressed at other times by eu, as obtuse; the other close, and approaching to the Italian u, or English oo, as obtund." (3)

winners for S & T

The winning S sentence was "Stewart suggested sneaking snacks surreptitiously, so Silvester silently stole some sausages" by Sherry.

The the winner for T: "Trying to talk to turkeys takes tenacity" by Erin.

Vote for S & T, plus R winner

The winner for R is "Rotund raccoons routinely raid restaurant rubbish" submitted by Erin.

And now, vote for S & T. Poll closes Saturday night.

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


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

Looking for T sentences

Okay, I was a little hasty in putting out calls for U and V sentences because we're still working on T. We've just got 1 T sentence so far, so submit T sentences by commenting here!

Remember, in T all those wonderful words like "the" and "to" and "there" are allowed, so go crazy!

Last call for S

S officially closes tonight, but since I'm late getting out the reminder, you've got until tomorrow (Thursday) night to submit your S sentences. Go to this post and comment: http://alpha-musing.blogspot.com/2011/07/solving-s.html

Also, T is officially open. http://alpha-musing.blogspot.com/2011/07/torturing-t.html