Pronouns Playing with Plurals

I couldn't resist throwing a bit of alliteration into the title for the added wordplay effect.

Thank you, Steve, for bringing this comic to my attention.

Comic by Jesse Tahirali.

Alliterative Rooster

My teenage boys have a new favorite condiment - Sriracha Chili Sauce.

I was unsure about the standard pronunciation, so I looked it up and came across a New York Times article titled "A Chili Sauce to Crow About ".

The pronunciation, according to the article is: SIR-rotch-ah.

But that is not the only reason I mention Sriracha.

My favorite part of the article is the author's alliterative description of the origin of the sauce -

"... an American sauce, a polyglot purée with roots in different places and peoples."

"Polyglot purée", as a description of the sauce, is based upon the incorrect perception that the sauce is Vietnamese or Thai in origin.

pol·y·glot

adj.
Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.
n.
1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
2. A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
3. A mixture or confusion of languages.

Definition from thefreedictionary.com.

Photo from NYT article.

Alliterative Dream Themes

Peanut butter pie and postcards

Alliteration Abounds - Newsweek

One of my children was asking about alliteration the other day so it struck me as funny that the October 27 issue of Newsweek - which I read the very next day - happened to have a couple of examples of alliteration. First, there was a column about health titled "The Power of Pure Poppycock" (nice set of p's, not to mention that the first word of the article is perhaps). Then there was a blurb about the separation of Madonna and Guy Ritchie that mentioned their son, Rocco Ritchie, and said he'd "better grow up to like alliteration."

I know I like alliteration. I think it is a very entertaining poetic device (contrary to what the cartoon below reads - which, by the way, provides a perfect example of the entertainment factor of alliteration).

Exocentric Compound Word of the Day

Sofa Spud: an alliterative version of couch potato.
Seen in the Fall 2008 issue of Birmingham Magazine.