Showing posts with label r. Show all posts
Showing posts with label r. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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?

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Results & More Voting

I'm way behind in announcing results (not that you don't just look at the polls yourselves...).

Natalie needs Nutella nightly, Niko needs Nutella now. (Naomi)
Overtired Oliver ordered oodles of old, orange oddities. (Sherry)
Perforated parasols partially protect photophobic penguins. (Bob)
Quirky queens quickly quilted quaint quadrangles. (Rita)

And now, vote for R (while you continue to think about your S sentences).

Monday, July 18, 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Routing R

Submit R sentences by Wednesday, July 20, using comments on this post.

Origins: Head (1)
Greek: Rho
Frequency: 9th most frequent letter in English (2)
"R" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is called the canine letter, because it is uttered with some resemblance to the growl or snarl of a cur: it has one constant sound in English, such as it has in other languages; as red, rose, more, muriatick: in words derived from the Greek, it is followed by an h, rhapsody: r is never mute, unless the second r may be accounted mute, where two rr are used; as myrrh." (3)