What is your favorite letter of the alphabet, and why?

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Mine is the letter I. And no I'm not saying this for egotistical "I love I" reasons! I genuinely have a thing for this letter. It is the 9th letter, and 9 is my favorite number, but moreover there is just something about words that start with I that appeals to me, especially old Greek names. I like all the vowels and the words they start, generally, but I and O stand out. Z can be cool too, and of course V has a very special name in my heart.

What is your favorite letter ?

Ok i promise this will be the last thread I start today before moderator man or anyone gets annoyed

Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

K. Duh. Always been K. And not just coz my name starts with it, and the K obsession WAY predates that silly britpop band that named albums after it. It is the 11th letter of the alphabet. And although it's not as cool as 22, 11 is a pretty special number as well.

kate, Monday, 10 February 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like K, actually. I think it has such a kool vibe to it. It's just, classy, you know? Maybe it has to do with all of those "Special K" commercials.

11 is a very powerful number in numerology, yes. (should start a thread on numbers too). It's a master number

K is very feminine though, don't you think? I mean, I definitely see k as a feminine entity as opposed to the hard, masculine C. Even though C can be soft too, so I guess C is biexual. But k..think of how your kinergarten teacher taught you how it starts all these soft words, like "kitten," "kite," etc, it gave it such a gentle, almost submissive matter. Maybe kindergarten teachers across the world are guity of projecting an unwanted docility onto K, I don't know.

Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Numerology thread would be good, but of course, they always degenerate into tiffs over which is the coolest big-daddy-o MASTER number, 22 or 23. It is 22 according to ancient numerology from the Babylonians to Sumerians to the Kabbalah. 23 is Illuminati nonsense. (OK, nothing wrong with a good bit of Illuminati nonsense, but you know what I mean.)

K is soft?

kate, Monday, 10 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

24 beats that

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

S

When I was little I used to explain it like this:
My name is Sarah.
I got to School.
I was born on September Sixth (19) Seventy-Seven.

Then later I loved S because that's the letter I would find all the good cds under when I went shopping.

Plus, it's fun to write. For a while when I was very little, I would write my name so that the S became a swan.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, K is soft! I mean, just in the way your grade-school teachers compared it to C - K starts 'softer' words than C does. Or maybe my teachers had a hidden agenda against K.

I actually have major issues with S, probably because so many people don't pronounce it right, including myself of course. Which other letter has caused such agonizing lisps, such rigorous speech problems and complexes? I may even dislike S. It's too dominant in the english language too, and there's VERY dishonest about this letter. I think it has to do with its slippery shape, and all of those 's'-erpentine connotations

Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

katte I'll start a number thread soon, I don't know about now.. The Babylonian system is the only valid one imo, it's correlatie with the Hindu/Vedic system. You're going to have to link me to some of tihis Illuminati stuff if you know of any sites.

Numbers are more closely associated with gender of course, since they are assigned to planetary energies which are either masculine or feminine, but letters are removed by a degree, since they are represented directly by numbers, not planets. In other words, each number is linked to a planet which has a specific gender status, but each letter is only linked to a particular number, so the gender status of letters can be hard to determine. I still think each letter has a gender, though

Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I like E.

Lara (Lara), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Sarah, esp. as regards seedees. I have more bands in my collection beginning with 'S' than any other letter. This post was brought to you by the letter 'S', and the number seven.

SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, yes. and my favorite number is Seven.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 February 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

X
- marks the spot
- is a great band
- indicates a vote
- multiplies things
- becomes a + when you tilt it
- means potential nudity
- so much more!

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 10 February 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz: search and destroy

jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

But Y is in the alphabet.

Graham (graham), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Q. It's so needy, I feel sympathetic to it.

Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Sarah, esp. as regards seedees. I have more bands in my collection beginning with 'S' than any other letter. This post was brought to you by the letter 'S', and the number seven.

You have just admitted to owning exclusively S Club 7 cds. Which is not to say that I haven't noticed the "S bands are better" phenomeneon.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

O, cuz it's like a circle dude. It totally, like, represents the circularitity of life.

*all spelling errors ententional*

Seriously, J: it sounds cool, flows off the tongue nicely, and gets you high

Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really have any but, I'm going to say 'O'. It's like the zen letter. It's the most simple the most relaxing to write. Circles are just great. They could be the symbol for eternity, they could be the sun, or they could be someone with an open mouth going "oooo." 0o0o0oooOOOoo00

A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Not saying it's my favorite, but I'd like to show some love for M. Especially in the CD category: One of the reasons why my band's dorky name starts with the letter M is because I found myself spending a lot of time flipping through the M section at CD stores. I'd mention the movie, too, but I haven't seen it; also M is a Roman Numeral, which is pretty neat. And it's a wide letter, too.

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Daddy, why aren't I funny?

Graham (graham), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus, 'M' is the relaxing pleasure letter: mmm mmm good. (O would be the exciting pleasure letter)

Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

M is probably my favorite letter too. It just looks the best. M is a movie and a band as well (although as far as my CD collection goes, M is slim pickings), and being able to write the letter in one stroke is a plus.

Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

X: it's a kiss, it's the best certificate for a film (though there is that new hardcore porn one now...), it's a good letter for designers, it sounds good.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"O" The circle of life and continuity and all. It strikes me as being both peaceful and ever in motion.

I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "J." I really do. It has a lot of moxie.

Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the word 'moxie' makes the case for both 'm' and 'x'

Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

O. I like round things.

This would be a lot easier if I were synaesthetic.

Curtis Stephens, Monday, 10 February 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "F". I like the soft sound of it and the fact that many nice things begin with F.

Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

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Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone say e? E is terrific.

Also: Which letters do the best bands start with?

Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I like 'C'

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd always look in the B or A rack in the CDs first. But mostly B's: Beastie Boys, Boo Radleys, Beatles, Beach Boys and a whole bunch of others...

B is quite a happy letter but not on I particularly associate with. It reminds me of a big fat jolly man for some reason. Not a very versatile letter (in English at least), but quite fun to pronounce Buhbuhbhbuh!

I look at letters as if they're people - also I like the idea that they face a certain direction. z, j, q, y, a, d, g all face backwards, while e, r, t, p, s, f, h etc... face forwards. Others face the front and the rules often change if you're writing capital letters.

Other remarks -
H - a very strong, masculine letter, associated with words like hard, hammer and heavy.
M - a soft feminine character. For me the most effeminate one.
Q - gay letter.

In this way you could do some kind of rum psychology experiment where you sort different people into different "types" by the letter that is best associated with them.

I'd like to start a names thread to see if people think they act or look like their given name.

dog latin, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i like G, cos that's what they call me.

g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)


m and s. (i just nearly submitted 'i like s and m')

minna (minna), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)


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