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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

1138.0. "The Absent Alphabet" by RT128::KENAH (Do we have any peanut butter?) Fri Apr 07 1995 09:00

    There's been a bit of action lately in "The Silent Alphabet" string.

    One response intrigued me, and set me to thinking:
    
>            <<< KOLFAX::DISK$USERS:[NOTES$LIBRARY]JOYOFLEX.NOTE;2 >>>
>                              -< The Joy of Lex >-
>===============================================================================
>Note 1101.58                   The Silent Alphabet                     58 of 95
>AIMHI::TINIUS "It's always something."               4 lines  27-JUN-1994 12:02
>                                 -< Corny... >-
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>	L as in colonel
>
>-stephen
    
    I began to think about a different kind of alphabet -- 
    the Absent Alphabet.  Here are a few examples:
    
    	R as in colonel
    	F as in laugh
    	I as in women
    	O as in bureau
    	A as in sleigh                                          
    	Z as in daisy
    
    And so on.  Additional examples are welcome, and encouraged.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1138.1		SMURF::BINDER	vitam gustare	`Fri Apr 07 1995 09:04`	1
	The second o in womb.
1138.2	Sorry, had to put this in	PEKING::SULLIVAND	Not gauche, just sinister	`Fri Apr 07 1995 09:20`	1
	the f in cod
1138.3		RT128::KENAH	Do we have any peanut butter?	`Fri Apr 07 1995 09:54`	3
	>the f in cod I don't get it.
1138.4		CSC32::D_DERAMO	Dan D'Eramo, Customer Support Center	`Fri Apr 07 1995 10:11`	4
	Perhaps some other, less expensive kind of fish gets passed off as cod a lot, and has an f sound in its name. Dan
1138.5		BBRDGE::LOVELL	� l'eau; c'est l'heure	`Sun Apr 09 1995 08:00`	4
	If you ate in DECpark cafeteria on Fridays you might see the joke of the "f in cod".
1138.6		AUSSIE::WHORLOW	Bushies do it for FREE!	`Sun Apr 09 1995 16:30`	19
	G'day, some has to let out oftheir misery... little boy... piece of cod and some chips please fishmonger I have no cod (repeat) 5 times lb... I want cod and chips fm I have no cod no C.O.F.D, do yer hear lb.. There's no f in cod fm.. At last you understand...
1138.7		JRDV04::DIAMOND	segmentation fault (california dumped)	`Sun Apr 09 1995 19:00`	5
	Re .6 Well it's easy to see how the lb was confused. The fm wanted him to listen to the fm, when all his life he'd been told to rtfm.
1138.8		NOVA::FISHER	now \|a\|n\|a\|l\|o\|g\|	`Mon Apr 17 1995 07:55`	1
	:-)
1138.9	Working my way back	wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee	Wook like book with a W	`Mon Sep 18 1995 00:16`	7
	the W in one and once the sh in anything ending in -tion the ctsh in anything ending in -xion for you UK types across the Atlantic, though the 't' is technically in the silent alphabet. Wook