Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 07, 2021

quite clever

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

Arrrgh. Mallett gets the Pastis Prize today!

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

Another masterful job, Jef!

And y

in a feW words, ‘w’ is also a vowel.

Sorry, alliteration uses one letter!

if you want to invent voweleration then you can use AEIOU

Is Alliteration applied always appealing?

… or do you have another angle on its allure?

Perfect. Just… perfect.

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

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.”

Acrostic for the win!

“Why? Because we like you!”

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

I feel my pedantry stirring…

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

Yes, alliteration can use vowels as well as consonants.

Assonance- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assonance

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

Wow.

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.

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

BRILLIANT.

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

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).

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 ?

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

Old MacDonald could not be reached for comment…

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

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

The vowel thing is more likely assonance or rhyme.

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