Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 07, 2021

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    nadie1943  about 3 years ago

    quite clever

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    Chrisdiaz801  about 3 years ago

    Good job, Caufield. He probably learned that while watching his parents on tax day.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    Arrrgh. Mallett gets the Pastis Prize today!

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    Bilan  about 3 years ago

    Mrs Olsen: You can think of something clever as that, but you forget your math assignment?

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    eromlig  about 3 years ago

    Another masterful job, Jef!

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    C  about 3 years ago

    And y

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    djlactin  about 3 years ago

    in a feW words, ‘w’ is also a vowel.

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    Sanspareil  about 3 years ago

    Sorry, alliteration uses one letter!

    if you want to invent voweleration then you can use AEIOU

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    Doug K  about 3 years ago

    Is Alliteration applied always appealing?

    … or do you have another angle on its allure?

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    Skeptical Meg  about 3 years ago

    Perfect. Just… perfect.

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    Old Girl  about 3 years ago

    That’s actually funny today. I’m just hung up on the order.

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    TheWildSow  about 3 years ago

    Repeating vowel SOUNDS is “assonance” – and yeah, we snickered at the name when we had that lesson in school! I don’t know if there’s a special term for “using all the vowels.”

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    pony21 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Acrostic for the win!

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    MS72  about 3 years ago

    “Why? Because we like you!”

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago

    That’s a form of acrostic, not alliteration, you little smart@ss.

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    Serial Pedant  about 3 years ago

    I feel my pedantry stirring…

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    sandpiper  about 3 years ago

    There are the 5 professional vowels, Then there is Y a vowel wannabe.

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    calliarcale  about 3 years ago

    Yes, alliteration can use vowels as well as consonants.

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    SetInMyWays  about 3 years ago
    Assonance- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assonance
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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago

    What has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never has 5 letters.

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    Tallguy  about 3 years ago

    Wow.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  about 3 years ago

    Sorry, Caulfield (and thus Jef), but not only did that saw in fact apply accurately in the past, for the first 100 years or so of American dollars, for most people. it was an unattainable dream.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 3 years ago

    Incidentally, today I attended a meeting that highlighted one Joan Quigley. I pointed out that her name has all the vowels.

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    ckeller  about 3 years ago

    BRILLIANT.

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    mitchel.farr  about 3 years ago

    It goes back to when workers actually worked for $30/month and found.

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    AndrewSihler  about 3 years ago

    In early Germanic verse, which was alliterative, the ictus of the first, second, and third feet were to alliterate, the second foot being the hinge (so the alliteration might be either 1, 2, 3 or 1, 3, or 2, 3), and fourth foot did not alliterate. In this scheme, if the ictus of the 2nd foot was a vowel, the rules were the same except that the alliterating vowels had to be different from the “hinge” vowel. The sixth line of the Béowulf reads

    egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð. . .

    Note: eg is something like /ɛy/, eo is /eǝ̯/, and of course æ is /æ/ (as in sat). I.e., three quite different syllables. ð stood for the two kinds of our th as seen in thy and thigh (in Old English, which was which was automatic, unlike our English).

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    kennnyp  about 3 years ago

    The good old diphthong… ‘w’ … all i know is that when I was a kid it was…. ‘a,e,i,o, u, and sometimes y’’ but somewhere in the 70 i was dating a first grade teacher and was shocked to find out ‘w’ sneaked in there….as a ‘sometimes’ vowel under the premise of a diphthong….as is in the word ‘how….’ so my question is….. how ?

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    falcon_370f  about 3 years ago

    No, alliteration is repeated CONSONANT sounds at the beginning of words.

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    Mary McNeil Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Old MacDonald could not be reached for comment…

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    Lambutts  about 3 years ago

    Old McDonald was dyslexic, “O-I-E-I-E”

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    Lambutts  about 3 years ago

    Would’ve been more creative if you had used A-E-I-O-U in alphabetical order. :)

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    rugeirn  about 3 years ago

    The vowel thing is more likely assonance or rhyme.

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    Bill Löhr Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Punctuation is important (though not always audible): “Sometimes. Why?”, “Sometimes y.”

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