#13299
12/18/2000 2:44 PM
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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
12/18/2000 3:27 PM
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To-use a liberty, Tuetonic?
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#13301
12/18/2000 4:41 PM
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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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#13302
12/19/2000 12:05 AM
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When the Moody Blues sing it, it comes out "Chewsday afternoon."
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#13303
12/19/2000 3:17 AM
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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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12/19/2000 9:28 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
12/19/2000 11:07 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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12/19/2000 8:15 PM
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#13307
12/20/2000 8:11 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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12/20/2000 8:22 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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12/20/2000 9:13 AM
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On Tuesday tuitions, our Terence tore his hair
"Oh tubular Tuesday blues!" said he, a-tottering tetchily
"Why choose Tuesday?", he masticated portlily
"A thorough Thursday, now, beats Tuesday's tumescence
But Tuesday's juices, they just don't jive."
(Taken from The loneliness of training for the sexual Olympics. Reprinted by kind permission of the author,
Shiva Lingam)
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#13310
12/20/2000 1:09 PM
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>but pronounce tuna with [tu:]
'fraid tuna is chewna where I come from. I chew chewna sandwiches on chewsdays. All the same.
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12/20/2000 1:24 PM
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"Tubular Tuesday" at Campland... only 5 min. from Sea World!
or, how about 'toothsome Tuesday'?
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12/20/2000 1:36 PM
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If you spend your Tuesday on a tubular train...
where will you go on Wednesday... and so on?
Emanuela
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#13313
12/20/2000 1:44 PM
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If you spend your Tuesday on a tubular train...
where will you go on Wednesday... and so on?Wednesday on a wierd wen Thursday on a thorough thrashing Friday on a freezing fridge ... 
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12/20/2000 1:56 PM
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>wierd wen
weird?
wired??
wife's???
wie geht's?!
what? (sorry, just one of those weird whims)
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#13315
02/02/2002 3:33 PM
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Dear Shanks: I was fascinated to discover title you mentioned: "Training for the Sexual Olympics". I have never been able to figure out an acceptable way of judging such Olympics. I queried Capitol Kiwi about it and he got upset.
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02/02/2002 3:59 PM
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could not find a word that alliterates nicely with Tuesday ...has the same initial sound combination of consonant and vowel.
Alliteration does not require matching vowel sounds. Not sure whether nice alliteration does.
If you pronounced Tuesday correctly (i.e., carefully) you could alliterate it with, e.g., tamarind.
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02/02/2002 5:52 PM
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02/02/2002 6:08 PM
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No, no, over the Hill, surely ...
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02/02/2002 6:29 PM
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I queried Capitol Kiwi
You know a NZer working on the hill?
Given the subject of the dicussion, dr. bill was merely avoiding a form whose nearer root might take us off on another route:
capital: from caput, head
capitol: from Capitolium, temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline hill
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#13320
02/02/2002 6:48 PM
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Sorry about the typo, CK. Do you still get upset about the difficulty of judging the Sexual Olympics?
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02/02/2002 10:41 PM
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Do you still get upset about the difficulty of judging the Sexual Olympics?
I never was upset, just flummoxed. I couldn't enter anyway, because I'd need performance-enhancing drugs ...
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02/02/2002 11:00 PM
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Dear CK: I never challeged you to compete, I challenged you to devise a method of judging. How would you decide which participant had the most meritorious performance?
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02/03/2002 12:33 AM
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Is there anyplace I can go on the net to listen to these variations of the pronunciation of TU as TJU (which I can't imagine since T is a breathe-out sound and J is a breathe-in sound) and CHEW
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