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We’ve discussed individual letters in these two cases:

D – “adore” lost its interior “d” in the middle ages and got it back in the Renaissance; amir >> admiral by way of “ad” hypercorrection

N – nadder >> adder and all the other n-droppers and n-losers

But you are looking for cases in which the letter says its own name, yes?

Last edited by kem (2011-09-14 21:48:07)

L presents an L of a lot of opportunities from words borrowed from the Moors.

Tristan smiled softly as they came around a bed, to a little l-cove on the lake edge. “This is where all the big fish are.”
Group fan fic

One day someone must needs return to this cove. Alcove and cove do not have the same root, apparently, the one Arabic, the other proto High German, though that really strains one’s credulity.

X

Their love is unbreakable. That might sound some what romantic, but when you see the image of two young teens groping and “snogging”you begin to vomit. Let me just say no one knows this girl very well, but what we do know of her we do not like. Her X boyfriends call her a prude and a slut.
http://www.dstewsfml.blogspot.ca/

If I pray everyday will my x boyfriend come back?
http://www.ask.com/answers/16027501/ja- … =dir&jss=0

My boyfriend on whose forehead I have drawn a big X.

And speaking of “X” boyfriends, here’s the example I stumbled upon yesterday:

My X boyfriend has finished school and left for Saudi Arabia.
an ‘x’hibitionist’s story

E

E. boli

Poor Marc :(

S.A.
When I was at school, a lot of people thought that an essay was an S.A., or else they used the abbreviation as a shorthand.

Midnight Summers Dream SA help
hi guys, i found this forum online and i need to write an sa for my gcse soon on a character in a midnight summers dream, i have chooses bottom, i was hoping someone could read over it for me and tell me their thoughts?
Thx
http://www.online-literature.com/forums … am-SA-help

I could write an S.A. on here about how great Lucy is but I’ll just mention we do a lot of framing for her, amazingly talented local lass, up to all sorts of projects and exhibitions all over the world…
http://theframers.net/category/exhibitions/

“The teacher told us to write an SA, but I don’t know what SA stands for!” (joke)
http://www.wtmelon.com/a24Writer%27sWS.html

OP: So Oscar has UV Itis, poor man, he has had every illness possible… frown emoticon
Comments: UV Itis???
Reply: Allergic to the sun….he is going blind in one of his eyes…
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? … 7966441913

Hello, My horse was recently diagnosed with U. V. Itis and I would like to find a mask he can wear all day everyday with the MOST UV protection available…
http://www.equisearch.com/resources/com … /aft/18080

Or is that uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea. The uvea would be something like the inner skin of a grape, if a grape had two skins. The ‘vascular tunic’ of the eye, which includes the iris. Horses with uveitis must shield their eyes from too much light.

Last edited by burred (2015-12-02 08:32:15)

Uvitis as a spelling for uveitis is a good call, I think, Kem.

Here’s a complicated story.

Best moment on the morning flight from Seattle. Flight attendant is coming round offering drinks and taking breakfast orders. There’s something involving oats as one of the options and I didn’t catch what the other is. But first things first, it’s too early for champagne so I’m thinking spicey tomato juice.
“Are Mr and Mrs T aboard?” I ask.
She looks blank, scans her passenger manifest. “Do you mean Mr and Mrs Turner?”
“Um, no, the bloody mary mix.”
“Right.” She looks at me. “Will you be having AKCD ya?”
WTF? My turn to be blank. Usually my subconscious comes to the rescue with difficult words, but this time it’s holding up a white flag.
“Ah, could you say that again, please?”
“Would you like A K C D yeah?” She spells it out slowly for the idiot forrener.
Nope. This must be some code. The universe is getting back at me for torturing my FB friends with AFF and FT jargon.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/5/492927/7913133

He finally spells it quesidilla.

G

“Until I was 32 I believed that a G spot was a ‘gee spot,’ that perfect rhetorical space where people say, ‘Gee, that was great!’” admits Heinrichs, author of “Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion” (Three Rivers Press). “I finally looked up the real meaning after a disastrous presentation to administrators at an Ivy League university. ‘Here’s how to find the alumni gee spot,’ I’d instructed the distinguished group. I think I’d also said something about ‘stimulating’ alumni engagement. Titters, red faces, awkward silence when I finished.”

After three changes of ISP I seem to be able to access the forum again, so bunged this in what seemed the most appropriate thread. What gems there are in here – I’ve been back to look at those cakes a dozen times already. The G string, just out of interest, was originally “geestring” and may have made the change under the influence of the violin’s thickest string. I like to know these things.

Marc’s friend Stephen.

Def. There was a simbling, in the uniquecorns, somewhere, for 80-HD. Perfect consonance. Aha, here. But nothing beats hearing it first person.