Ravenswing
Looking for one-to-one correspondences between the English and Hebrew alphabets is something I've been doing for quite some time. If one considers the set of vowels as one member of the alphabet set, one gets 22 members: the set of vowels and the remaining 21 consonants.
It works, but it might be seen as stretching things a bit.
Answers come unexpectedly sometimes.
I was breakfasting with my wife this morning. She was discussing some aspects of her work--culturing of cells. She used the word "aliquot", then mock-seriously said: "the word of the day-- aliquot. A-L-I-Q-U-O-T".
I snapped back "Are you sure it isn't A-L-I-K-W-O-T?"
And a light went on.
'qu' can be replaced by 'kw'; 'x' can be replaced by 'ks'; 'c' sounds either like 's' or 'k'; 'f' can be replaced by 'ph'.
If we remove 'c', 'f', 'q' and 'x' from the alphabet we have a 22-letter English alphabet...
fly well
raven
It works, but it might be seen as stretching things a bit.
Answers come unexpectedly sometimes.
I was breakfasting with my wife this morning. She was discussing some aspects of her work--culturing of cells. She used the word "aliquot", then mock-seriously said: "the word of the day-- aliquot. A-L-I-Q-U-O-T".
I snapped back "Are you sure it isn't A-L-I-K-W-O-T?"
And a light went on.
'qu' can be replaced by 'kw'; 'x' can be replaced by 'ks'; 'c' sounds either like 's' or 'k'; 'f' can be replaced by 'ph'.
If we remove 'c', 'f', 'q' and 'x' from the alphabet we have a 22-letter English alphabet...
fly well
raven