Word Nerd Fun #10
Last week's winners for best neologisms (it's a tie) are Dr. Bear and Alicia. Email me your addresses at ThePhantomProf@aol.com and I'll get your prizes out to you.
OK, this week's fun with English lingo goes like this. Some of our golden oldie figures of speech and folksy sayings are getting lost. Only a few students over the past four years -- exactly one, actually, and she was in her late 20s at the time --knew "A stitch in time saves nine." Only a handful per semester had ever heard the phrase "as the crow flies" and what it meant. So here's a little puzzler for you. I've reduced five well-known sayings to their first letters only. Example: ABITHIWTITB is "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
And there's an extra step. After posting your answers to the five I've given you, post one of your own and let the rest of us guess. Best puzzler gets a Family Guy (TV show) keychain.
Ready, steady, go:
1. NPNG
2. DCOSM
3. TEBCTW
4. LDWDGUWF
5. ETBETRMAMHWAW
posted by writer @ 12:29 PM
16 Comments:
Bah, I can only get the first three. But here's mine (courtesy of "Good Morning Vietnam"): HTASAIAWR
All but #4 here; submission is FRIWAFTT. Are we supposed to actually post the answers once we have 'em all?
I only got 2 right, but I got about 5 or 6 submissions... Does that mean that I win or should I wait longer? How do I send you my address and a picture?
Ah, here we go. I hadn't heard #4 before, but guessed several of the words and searched the Web for the fragment that I'd guessed. The *last* letters of the proverbs are:
1. ONON
2. TYRDM
3. EYDSEM
4. ENHSTPHS
5. YODYOESANYYDE
And again, FRIWAFTT
Got em! Wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
Mine is: AWANPMJADB
I got them; #2 was oddly hard.
Here's mine, a family favorite: SOGOTP
The answer can be seen here at Wikipedia.
1. No pain no gain.
2. Don't cry over spilt milk.
3. The early bird catches the worm.
4. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
5. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Mine: AFAHMASP
Alice in Arkansas
1. No pain no gain.
2. Don't cry over spilt milk.
3. The early bird catches the worm.
4. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
5. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Mine: NICBDAT
(will post answer later)
-Rachael, Dallas
at work I said "the worm has turned" and no one in their 20's had idea what that meant.
Yeah, it happens all the time. By the way, I think that Alice in Arkansas beat you to the keychain thingy...
fun stuff...
NPNG - no pain, no gain
DCOSM - don't cry over spilled milk
TEBCTW - the early bird catches the worm
LDWDGUWF - lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
ETBETRMAMHWAW - early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
FRIWAFTT - fools rush in where angels fear to tread
AWANPMJADB - all work and no play makes jack (or john) a dull boy
SOGOTP - shit or get off the pot
AFAHMASP - a fool and his money are soon parted
NICBDAT - nothing is certain but death and taxes
try these-
DILLIGAF
LILABOCYNKWYGTG
SOOHADOTO
okay adding more since mine got figured out already.
YCTIWY
WTMTB
HWHAP
TMTOWTSAC
TETIAS
SFTHM
PLIN
working on those others...
rachael, dallas
ok figured those out.
do I look like a give a flip?
Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get
Six of one half a dozen of the other
haha this is addicting after a while.
rachael, dallas
do i look like i give a flip, that is.
(typos ew)
rach - you're all over it girl! ;)
Alice in Arkansas: I believe you are the winner of the Family Guy keychain (it says "You suck" on it and if that offends you, I'll scramble for another prize out of my over-stuffed prize closet of TV and movie paraphernalia). Send your mailing address to ThePhantomProf@aol.com.
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