'a' 'e' 'i' 'o' 'u' and NEVER 'y'

[November Rain]

Wait, what words beginning with U can you not put An in front of?

Nevermind, I remember now. It's the ones where U is actually pronouced 'you'... as in a Uvula or a University.

unicorn

 

[Equint77]

I hated that song..

A-E
A-E-I-O-U, U... and sometimes Y

 

[Daisy]

Why would sex rhyme with kicks. Words don't rhyme simply because they share the same last letter. The whole last syllable has to match.

I think he's talking about 'reverse alliteration' (I'm thinking there must be a name for it?), where instead of the first letters all sounding the same, the last letters do.

So... instead of Silly Cindy Sat on Cement as it Set, it would be...

Hicks sticks a hex on Dix for having sex.

 

[November Rain]

Why would sex rhyme with kicks. Words don't rhyme simply because they share the same last letter. The whole last syllable has to match.

in this case i wasn't really intending to mean a whole syllable rhyme, i was just separating the sounds out and comparing the last part of speech that is used with both words

i.e

comparing the x sound in sex to the ks or cks sound in kicks.

 

[Daisy]

damn that blasted C (i always associated that c being said with the initial kic part with the ks after)

wrecks, sex, wrecks sex, wrecks sex.....


nah, i'm fussy about this and i would say that they don't rhyme truelly due to the sssss sound at the end of wrecks. very close but not the same.


you should be a rapper Nut, linking non rhyming words is already in your repetoir



It might just come down to the way i was taught english i suppose

So you pronounce wrecks and rex differently?

Maybe it's just our American marble-mouths.

 

[November Rain]

I think he's talking about 'reverse alliteration' (I'm thinking there must be a name for it?), where instead of the first letters all sounding the same, the last letters do.

So... instead of Silly Cindy Sat on Cement as it Set, it would be...

Hicks sticks a hex on Dix for having sex.

i thought alliteration didn't have much to do with phonetics and was purely based on the word beginning with the same letter?

or are there different kinds of alliteration

oh and you hit the nail on the head

 

[Daisy]

i thought alliteration didn't have much to do with phonetics and was purely based on the word beginning with the same letter?

or are there different kinds of alliteration

oh and you hit the nail on the head

Same sound, not letter... as I demonstrated.

Also, I'm not sure that it has to be at the beginning... Maybe there's a different name when it's at the end? I don't know.

 

[November Rain]

So you pronounce wrecks and rex differently?

Maybe it's just our American marble-mouths.

definitely

well the s slur on wrecks lasts longer, rex is sharper and clearer...

rex wrecks

short and sharp followed by exaggerated slurr to emphasise the plural.


sound completely different, if i said them to you, you would be able to tell the difference without referring to the context of their use.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Hicks sticks a hex on Dix for having sex.

That darn Puritanical Hicks.

 

[November Rain]

Same sound, not letter... as I demonstrated.

I was thought in english that a saying like

All American Angels

was alliteration

perhaps in literature it's just as eye catching as it is relatively ear catching in speech

 

[Eric Draven]

When I was a kid, we never had none of this 'y' crap as a possible vowel. The other five were sufficient. Now, in this day and age of ipods and hetero 'man-on-man' porn these kids now see the need to give Big Bird the proverbial finger and slide in the most useless letter in the alphabet, and try to give it some credit by making it a vowel... and not even a legit one at that. What the hell is this "sometimes" crap? When is 'y' "sometimes" a vowel.

If you're familiar with me, then you know that it is not like me to quivel over such a minor matter. I generally stick to the weightier issues such as Governmental policy, and reuniting the Jackson 5 (sans Tito, that self-righteous y-loving son of a ***** ) so the very fact that I address this to the worldwide stage that is the internet shows that I mean movement and action!

I implore you all to take this gross misuse of the alphabet and reject it with a resounding "no" to those who support y's canonical vowelism. And when a kid comes up to you with their innocent face and rosey red cheeks, and recites to you the vowels ending in the infamous "and sometimes 'y'" speech, you *****-slap them back to their mother's womb and tell them to stay there until they know what's good. Y is not a vowel. Stupid jackcool

How is this my fault?

 

[Daisy]

I was thought in english that a saying like

All American Angels

was alliteration

perhaps in literature it's just as eye catching as it is relatively ear catching in speech

That is an alliteration, but it's based on sound, not letter.

Catch Cindy Cooking.... I don't think is alliterative, although I could be wrong.

According to this site, it doesn't even have to be at the beginning (which is what I was thinking).

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html

For instance this: Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone - is alliteration.

They talk about how ancient poets frequently used alliteration instead of rhyme: "In Beowulf there are three alliterations in every line".

This too they say is alliteration:

Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step.

 

[Daisy]

definitely

well the s slur on wrecks lasts longer, rex is sharper and clearer...

rex wrecks

short and sharp followed by exaggerated slurr to emphasise the plural.


sound completely different, if i said them to you, you would be able to tell the difference without referring to the context of their use.

I think that it's only in your mind that they sound different to you.

I know you wouldn't be able to tell if I said them not in context, and I do ennunciate quite well (for an American ).

 

[Daisy]

That darn Puritanical Hicks.

Ye, but you haven't heard the hex Hicks set on Rex!

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I heard Hicks called Dex to get specs on a hex for Rex's pecs which could really vex Tex.

 

[Deuce]

I vote "no" on acceptance of Y as a vowel, and "yes" on the annexation of * to make the twenty-seventh letter of our alphabet. I notice it's used a lot, especially on here.

 

[Daisy]

I heard Hicks called Dex to get specs on a hex for Rex's pecs which could really vex Tex.

Did you hear about the hex Hicks hit Harry with, too?



Try saing 'hex hicks hit Harry' several times quickly.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Heck Hixadairy


No

 

[November Rain]

I think that it's only in your mind that they sound different to you.

I know you wouldn't be able to tell if I said them not in context, and I do ennunciate quite well (for an American ).

crazy yanks

to hell with the lotta ya

 

[November Rain]

That is an alliteration, but it's based on sound, not letter.

Catch Cindy Cooking.... I don't think is alliterative, although I could be wrong.

According to this site, it doesn't even have to be at the beginning (which is what I was thinking).

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html

For instance this: Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone - is alliteration.

They talk about how ancient poets frequently used alliteration instead of rhyme: "In Beowulf there are three alliterations in every line".

This too they say is alliteration:

Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step.

that site's crazy

 

[Lackey]

boooooring... thanks a lot, Daisy for trying to make us learn. you too, Outsiderzedge

 

[Daisy]

I'm sorry. It's just my nature.

 

[Kipobe]

How is this my fault?

I don't have all the details, but I'm putting stuff together.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

I refuse to learn

 

[ScottyBBadd]

When I was a kid, we never had none of this 'y' crap as a possible vowel. The other five were sufficient. Now, in this day and age of ipods and hetero 'man-on-man' porn these kids now see the need to give Big Bird the proverbial finger and slide in the most useless letter in the alphabet, and try to give it some credit by making it a vowel... and not even a legit one at that. What the hell is this "sometimes" crap? When is 'y' "sometimes" a vowel.

If you're familiar with me, then you know that it is not like me to quivel over such a minor matter. I generally stick to the weightier issues such as Governmental policy, and reuniting the Jackson 5 (sans Tito, that self-righteous y-loving son of a ***** ) so the very fact that I address this to the worldwide stage that is the internet shows that I mean movement and action!

I implore you all to take this gross misuse of the alphabet and reject it with a resounding "no" to those who support y's canonical vowelism. And when a kid comes up to you with their innocent face and rosey red cheeks, and recites to you the vowels ending in the infamous "and sometimes 'y'" speech, you *****-slap them back to their mother's womb and tell them to stay there until they know what's good. Y is not a vowel. Stupid jackcool

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Y was never a vowel. Never will be one.