#13299 - 12/18/00 09:44 AM
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Surprisingly enough, even after a fair amount of reflection, I could not find a word that alliterates nicely with Tuesday i.e. which, in speech, has the same initial sound combination of consonant and vowel. Can anybody find one?
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#13300 - 12/18/00 10:27 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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To-use a liberty, Tuetonic?
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#13301 - 12/18/00 11:41 AM
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tubular, tutor, tumescent, tulip, Turing machine, tune...?
Or is there some non-standard aspect of your pronunciation which defeats these? (They work whether you say [tju:] or[tu:].)
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#13303 - 12/18/00 10:17 PM
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Father Steve comments: When the Moody Blues sing it, it comes out "Chewsday afternoon."
Yes! Which precedes yet another knight in white satin, no doubt.
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#13304 - 12/19/00 04:28 AM
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"Chewsday afternoon."
Chewsday is of course the day you feed the parrots Polly-styrene. On other days they just get Polly-filler.
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#13305 - 12/19/00 06:07 AM
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I stand corrected, but my list still works whether it's pronounced with [tju:] or [tu:] or [tSu:], since if one is, they all are, n'est-ce pas?
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#13306 - 12/19/00 03:15 PM
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#13307 - 12/20/00 03:11 AM
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Thank you for the examples, I agree that, as alliteration goes, they would all fit in (I pronounce "tju..", maybe with the exception of tumescent). What I forgot to mention: it should be a word (e.g adjective) that makes sense with "Tuesday". A tubular Tuesday - well, maybe one which you spend in a blocked London "Tube" train  ?
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#13308 - 12/20/00 03:22 AM
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A tubular Tuesday - well, maybe one which you spend in a blocked London "Tube" train?There's web site for those with tube woes: http://www.tubehell.com/
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