A Conversation for Word Gymnastics!
Wheel of Fortune
Roundley The Terminator Started conversation Aug 21, 2001
I've always wanted to be a competitor on the game show Wheel of Fortune (if you've missed it, don't sweat it). "Why?" most reasonable people would ask. "To play with the presenter's mind," I say.
Typically, when guessing a letter in the word or phrase, the contestant will say "'T' for 'Truck'". I'd like to be able to say things like: "'G' for 'gnosis'", "'P' as in 'Psychology'".
Your task, if interested, is to come up with a complete alphabet of words that do not reveal the initial letter in their pronounciation. I'll start with the easy ones:
D: Djibuti
G: Gnosis, or Gnome
H: Honour (depends on your schooling)
M: Mnemonic
P: Psychology
Others for these letters, or other letters are enthusiastically solicited.
Another interesting, but more limited, possibility is something like 'K' for 'Crisis', but I don't think it's likely to be as interesting.
:o)
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Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. Posted Aug 23, 2001
K, as in knowledge
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Roundley The Terminator Posted Aug 26, 2001
Very nice!
Actually, in the rules of Wheel of Fortune you can't ask for vowels, so I hadn't thought about them.
:o)
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Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. Posted Aug 27, 2001
You can when you solve the final puzzle. Or at least you can here. You get so many consonants and a vowel, don't you?
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Roundley The Terminator Posted Aug 27, 2001
Yep, actually I think so--I only ever watch it in the Gym (without sound!). I seem to recall vowels in the final round.
:o)
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Tamara's another day Posted Aug 31, 2001
X for Xylophone.
With the alphabet itself there are some good examples.......
A for H*****
E for F
E for L
E for M
E for N
A for R
E for S
Y for U
D for W
E for X
W for Y
***** Note this one carefully. I REALLY hate it when people pronounce the letter H 'Haitch' !!!!!!
Wheel of Fortune
Roundley The Terminator Posted Sep 2, 2001
Specially, like O as in Oedipus. I have a cat called Oedipus (because 'e d' Pus!) and I should have thought of that.
I also like the letters in the alphabet, that would really play with their minds--shame that so many of them are vowels, though.
:o)
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Roundley The Terminator Posted Sep 2, 2001
So, how does one pronouce "Llandudno"? -- it's obviously not Lan-dud-no.
:o)
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Sep 4, 2001
Llandudno - is Chhhlandudno....
Tsunami - I've yet to hear that pronounced sunami - usually the T is pronounced - possibly incorrectly.... Or I could be just burbling (c.f. Brit Eng thread)...
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Sep 4, 2001
How about c as in cedilla?
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Roundley The Terminator Posted Sep 4, 2001
My 2 bits worth:
With chestnut and cedilla, and (to a lesser extent) xylophone, they start with the conventional pronounciation of 'c' -- unless I'm missing something. Although the intent is correct, it just wouldn't play with the presenter's head enough, IMHO.
But good offerings anyway.
:o)
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Platypus 2 Posted Sep 5, 2001
If you asked for x as in exclamation, would that play with his head enough?
I guess p as in pharynx wouldn't pass muster, but k as in knot might?
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Sep 5, 2001
Cedilla - pronounced Saidilla?
I guess playing with head wise you could say
S as in Cedilla?
(OR S as in Antidisestablishmentarianism)
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- 1: Roundley The Terminator (Aug 21, 2001)
- 2: Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. (Aug 23, 2001)
- 3: Clelba (Aug 24, 2001)
- 4: Roundley The Terminator (Aug 26, 2001)
- 5: Clelba (Aug 27, 2001)
- 6: Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. (Aug 27, 2001)
- 7: Roundley The Terminator (Aug 27, 2001)
- 8: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Aug 29, 2001)
- 9: Tamara's another day (Aug 31, 2001)
- 10: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Aug 31, 2001)
- 11: Not Really Acid (Sep 1, 2001)
- 12: Roundley The Terminator (Sep 2, 2001)
- 13: Roundley The Terminator (Sep 2, 2001)
- 14: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Sep 4, 2001)
- 15: Platypus 2 (Sep 4, 2001)
- 16: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Sep 4, 2001)
- 17: Roundley The Terminator (Sep 4, 2001)
- 18: Platypus 2 (Sep 5, 2001)
- 19: Platypus 2 (Sep 5, 2001)
- 20: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Sep 5, 2001)
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