What hat at tea?

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:31 am

I'm no good at word puzzles, but this one just occurred to me - I suppose it's been done before though.

The idea is that successive words in a sentence, phrase or paragraph are acronyms for the portion to their left or right. Using the word 'what' we get:

What hat at t

I decided to allow the single letter to stand for a word: otherwise it seems too difficult. So we change t to tea and we get a sentence that actually has some meaning (it's the question a worried fashion victim asks concerning which headgear she should wear at a Tea Party):

"What hat at tea?"

Another example: a woman is shoe-shopping with her friend. The friend asks what is the woman's favourite pastime, and what is her boyfriend's. She replies:

"This! His is sex!"

The acronym can also be at the end; again, the single letter is allowed to stand for a word.

See if you can invent some. Who will make the longest and/or best one? :)

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:06 pm

I guess they don't have to make sense, so:
Shit hit it, tea.

ratbag · Post by **ratbag** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:12 pm

Robe. OBE. Be ennobled

Rat

Deetee · Post by **Deetee** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:43 pm

Instructions to someone trying to ingest frozen fish fingers for supper without microwaving them first:

"Cheat! Heat, eat." (at tea)

Tanja · Post by **Tanja** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:07 pm

God, go! Oh.

Amused mused muse,use us, you...

Some "single letter words": why you Anne be bee are you oh pee tea ex sea gee Dee elle queue. Are there any more?

Deetee · Post by **Deetee** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:13 pm

Anne???

eye
jay

Tanja · Post by **Tanja** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:23 am

"Anne" is for me the "N" sound, but I admit that it might be because I am not a native English speaker, and I have difficulties distinguishing between pronounciations of e.g. "bad" and "bed".

uneasy · Post by **uneasy** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:51 am

Maybe when spoken out loud:
Back! Ack! See Kay?

Anyone know Basque, an agglutinating language? That might have song long ones.

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:18 pm

Telling arcticpenguin to give away his poor-quality rap music, and listen to the king of keyboard instruments instead:

Scrap crap rap ap! Piano!