Staring at the illuminated digital numbers on my alarm clock, I had an interesting thought.
What if, instead of digits zero through nine, there were capital letters.
Not every letter would be available to use, however. Only ones that could be legibly re-created on a standard nightstand digital alarm clock are eligible. For example, an E would be acceptable while an N would not be.
Here is the list of letters that qualify:
A C E F H I J L O P S U
Once I had squared away the upper case participants, my brain began making words out of those twelve letters. I came up with a few:
FACE, POSH, HULA HOOP
Now I challenge you, my esteemed and literate readership, to find some more words and phrases using only the dozen letters listed above (as well as below). Text-speak, slang, and all manner of creative spelling is acceptable to use for purposes of this friendly little competition. Please post your answers as comments.
Good luck and happy spelling.
A C E F H I J L O P S U
hope, soup, life!
Fish fecal puss slop juice is foul fella!
nice list Dan!!
I can’t believe it. I had a huge list of words, thought I clicked “post comment,” but then poof, it was all gone. Argh!
ace
aces
faces
lace
space
pace
paces
slop
lop
lops
lip
lips
hop
hops
shop
flap
flaps
flip
flips
push
shape
shale
hale
place
places
clash
lash
flop
flops
joe
sue
help
helps
flesh
cash
ash
elfish falsie chafes
Dan’s are terrific, but Karen is a showoff!
As an avid Scrabble player, this post really got me thinking…
Here’s my top ten list:
special
pachoulis
jailhouse
pouches
polices
hospice
jealous
upscale
poaches
filches
Impressive, Jenn!!
Leah says LEAH, CALCULUS, SUSHI, APPLESAUCE
RT says FLOPHOUSE JAILHOUSE
Most of the words are taken .
hip
sip
juice
ace
fail
sushi
sail
ale
pail
hale
ace
lip
slip
flop
clap
eclipse
sufi
fuji
loaf
fiji
elf
help
seal
loose
sleep
Word-nerd that I am, I could spend *hours* having fun with this, but in order to show some restraint, I decided to see what I could do by just anagramming the letters at hand. Here are my favorites:
Soup-chef jail
Chef Julia Ops
Fuji Alps Echo
Half cup, Josie!
Juices flop. HA!
dude, u could also use B, because it would be represented by an 8
I love the game, but I’m afraid my english is very bad for it 🙂