Road Runner Posted March 25, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 25, 2022 From today's Daily Jumble® They both like to talk about words and how they are spelled. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 25, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 25, 2022 Their seats are too low Chain on the wrong side on Kathy's bike. What the hell is up with the pedals to cause their knees and feet to be parallel? Cathy's forks are badly bent 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted March 25, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, jsharr said: Cathy's forks are badly bent It is no wonder, each only has one fork leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted March 25, 2022 8 hours ago, jsharr said: What the hell is up with the pedals to cause their knees and feet to be parallel? They are from a parallel universe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 26, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 26, 2022 10 hours ago, jsharr said: Their seats are too low Chain on the wrong side on Kathy's bike. What the hell is up with the pedals to cause their knees and feet to be parallel? Cathy's forks are badly bent Okay, Caren! Or is it Karen? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palesaint Posted March 26, 2022 Share #6 Posted March 26, 2022 I tried the puzzle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted March 26, 2022 Share #7 Posted March 26, 2022 They need steamers! And yay, I got the riddle MomKirby would be so proud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted March 26, 2022 Share #8 Posted March 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Palesaint said: I tried the puzzle It's not easy to place #151 out of 150! I hope they gave you extra credit for all that work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 26, 2022 Share #9 Posted March 26, 2022 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 26, 2022 Share #10 Posted March 26, 2022 The letter c is virtually unnecessary except in phonics digraphs like "ch" - which itself is confusing because there are three sounds it makes: tch, sh, and k. - something a child reads in a brochure at school. The "Rule of C" is: The letter c represents /s/ before the letters e, i or y; otherwise it represents /k/. Since "sh" is a different digraph than the "tch" sound of "ch" I guess we're stuck with "c" as a letter, otherwise we could drop it and spell things like Julius Saesar and Kap'n Krunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted March 26, 2022 Share #11 Posted March 26, 2022 2 hours ago, MickinMD said: The letter c is virtually unnecessary… And here’s why our alphabet includes it… https://ultrasaurus.com/2003/08/the-history-of-the-letter-c/ originally, C spelled the sound /g/. But, with some help from the Etruscans, the Romans got into a bit of a tangle here, and they wound up using C to spell both the sound /g/ and the sound /k/, while they hardly used the letter K at all. Eventually, realizing this was a bad idea, they invented a new letter, G, to spell the sound /g/, and they then used C exclusively to spell the sound /k/. This was the system borrowed from the Romans by the Anglo-Saxons. Originally C spelled only /k/ in Old English. But then the pronunciation of English changed. (Larry Trask) Another important consideration “‘c’ is often used (though not always) for roots whose pronunciation alternates between [s] and [k]. think of ‘public’ vs. ‘publicity’. If we spelled the first ‘publik’ and the second ‘publisity’ we wouldn’t be able to see the relationship between the two words as easily.” (Susan Fisher) A longer story (this might make a good children’s book if it had pictures) “That’s a very good question, and the answer is that it didn’t always make those sounds. See, the language we speak has changed over the centuries, as all languages do. And writing — which is different from talking, changes too, though much more slowly. The letter C wasn’t invented for English. It was invented several thousand years ago to write down the sounds of Phoenician, a language related to Hebrew and Arabic. At the time, the letter was called “gamel” or something like that, which means ‘camel’ (see the C?). It represented the G sound (the letter G was invented later, by the Romans). Later on the Greeks started using the Phoenician alphabet and they used the letter to represent the G sound, too. Not having any camels, they called it “gamma”; the K sound was represented by the letter K, called “kappa”. And later still, people in Italy used it, but they didn’t have a G sound, so they used it for the K sound. The Romans eventually wound up using this alphabet, with the letter C standing for the K sound, but they did have a G sound, so they put a little jot on the C and made it a G (they didn’t use the letter K, except for words they borrowed from Greek).” (John Lawler) “In the Norman French era, “C” was pronounced “S” before the letters “I,E,(Y)”, and otherwise “K”, After William the Conquerer captured England in 1066, English borrowed a lot of French words with French spellings, so “C” became a letter with two sounds. English also had words like “king, keep” where /k/ was pronounced before /e,i/, so the Greek letter “K” was reintroduced to keep things straight (more or less).” (Elizabeth J. Pyatt) Many thanks to those fine linguists who helped me understand the interesting history of the letter C, and it’s relatives K and G: Susan Fischer, NTID/RIT John Lawler, U Michigan Linguistics Dept Herb Stahlke, Ball State University Larry Trask, University of Sussex Mike Hammond Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D., Penn State University Anthea Fraser GUPTA,University of Leeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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