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

Torturing T

Submit T sentences by Wednesday, August 3, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: Tau
Frequency: 2nd most frequent letter in English (2)
"T" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A consonant, which, at the beginning and end of words, has always the same sound nearly approaching to the d; but before an i, when followed by a vowel, has the sound of an obscure s: as, nation, salvation, except when s precedes t: as, Christian, question." (3)